Reginald Wagstaffe

Reginald Wagstaffe (1907–1983) was an English naturalist, ornithologist, and museum curator.[1][2]

Reginald Wagstaffe
Black and white image of Reginald Wagstaffe, a middle-aged man. He is outside and wearing a coat.
Born(1907-07-28)28 July 1907
Died1983
Occupation(s)Ornithologist
Museum curator
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Cincinnati
Academic work
Institutions

Career

Wagstaffe attended the University of Cincinnati to study ornithology.[2] He was appointed Curator of the Yorkshire Museum in January 1941, replacing Walter Collinge, having formerly been Curator of the Stockport Municipal Museum.[1] Wagstaffe lived with his wife, Trissie, in Manor Cottage, a building next to the Museum in the grounds of York Museum Gardens. They were living here during the Baedeker Raid on York on 29 April 1942, during which a bomb narrowly missed the Museum, but caused considerable damage to the roof and windows. Wagstaffe led the efforts to clean up the museum and salvage the Type fossils from the wreckage.[1]

Wagstaffe worked with the Honorary Curators of Entomology, Walter Douglas Hincks and A Smith to collect specimens for the museum from Askham Bog.[3] He also worked with Hincks to bring the Ellis collection of insects to the museum in 1945.[4]

He left the Yorkshire Museum in 1948 to take up the post of Keeper of Vertebrate Zoology at Liverpool City Museum where he remained for the rest of his working life, founding the Liverpool Ornithologist's Club and serving as a member of the British Birds Rarities Committee from 1963 to 1970.[2]

Publications
  • Wagstaffe, R. and Fidler, J. H. 1957. The preservation of natural history specimens. London.
  • Wagstaffe, R. 1978. Type specimens of birds in the Merseyside County Museums : formerly City of Liverpool Museums. Liverpool.

References
  1. Pyrah, B. (1988). The History of the Yorkshire Museum and its Geological Collections. North Yorkshire County Council. pp. 120–125.
  2. "News and comment: Reginald Wagstaffe (1907-1983)" (PDF). British Birds. 1983.
  3. Annual report of the Council of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society for 1942 (Report). Yorkshire Philosophical Society. 1943. p. 3.
  4. Denton, M. (1993). Ground Beetles in the Yorkshire Museum. North Yorkshire County Council. pp. 5–8.
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