Henry John Elwes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Henry John Elwes

English botanist, entomologist, author, lepidopterist, collector and traveller

Date of Birth: 16-May-1846

Place of Birth: Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 26-Nov-1922

Profession: lepidopterist, ornithologist, botanist, entomologist

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Henry John Elwes, FRS (16 May 1846 – 26 November 1922) was a British botanist, entomologist, author, lepidopterist, collector and traveller who became renowned for collecting specimens of lilies during trips to the Himalaya and Korea.
He was one of the first group of 60 people to receive the Victoria Medal of the Royal Horticultural Society in 1897.
Author of Monograph of the Genus Lilium (1880), and The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland (1906–1913) with Augustine Henry, as well as numerous articles, he left a collection of 30,000 butterfly specimens to the Natural History Museum, including 11,370 specimens of Palaearctic butterflies.