Eric Ennion
| Eric Ennion | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Eric Arnold Roberts Ennion 1900 |
| Died | 1981 |
| Nationality | English |
| Alma mater | Caius College, Cambridge |
| Occupation |
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| Home town | Burwell, Cambridgeshire |
| Children | Hugh Ennion (artist) |
Dr Eric Arnold Roberts Ennion (1900–1981) was a British artist, author,[1] illustrator, and radio presenter,[2] specialising in birds and other natural history subjects.
Following education at Epsom College[2] and Caius College, Cambridge[2] and training at St Mary's Hospital,[2] he worked for twenty years as a general practitioner at a large country practice in Burwell on the fen borders of Cambridge,[2] where he had spent his childhood. A career change in 1945 saw him become warden at the Field Studies Council's Flatford Mill Field Centre,[2] and from 1950, founder and director of the Monks' House Bird Observatory at Seahouses, Northumberland, which he wrote about in The House on the Shore.[2] Ennion was a founder member and Honorary Vice President of the Society of Wildlife Artists.
His son, Hugh, is also an accomplished artist.
Publications
- Adventurers Fen, Methuen (1942) ASIN B000X8EB86
- The British Bird Oxford University Press (1943)
- The story of migration, G.G. Harrap (1947)
- Life on the Sea Shore, Oxford University Press (1948)
- East Anglia, Issue 6 of The new naturalist (1949)
- The Lapwing, Methuen (1949)
- Cambridgeshire Huntingdonshire and the Isle of Ely, Robert Hale (1951)
- Field Study Books, (1952)
- Ornithological report for Northumberland and Durham for 1956, Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne (1957)
- Bird study in a garden: a book for bird watchers, Penguin (1958)
- The House on the Shore: The Story of Monks' House Bird Observatory, Routledge and Kegan Paul (1960[3])
- Birdwatching, Pelham (1963)
- Tracks, Clarendon (1967)
- The Clue Book BIRDS Oxford University Press (1968 - reprinted with corrections 1970, 1973)
- Birds and Seasons (introduction by Bob Walthew) Arlequin Press (1994) ISBN 0-9522019-2-5
- The Living Birds of Eric Ennion ( Victor Gollancz Ltd, London 1982 ISBN 0-575-03157-3
Biography
- Eric Ennion: A Life of Birds by Bob Walthew; introduction by Robert Gillmor, The Wildlife Art Gallery (2003) ISBN 0-9526236-5-X