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Edward John Mawby Buxton, (16 December 1912 – 11 December 1989) was a scholar, university teacher, poet and an ornithologist who played a significant part in the development of ornithology in Britain in the years immediately after World War II.〔(D. W. Snow. "Obituaries : John Buxton." IBIS 132 (International Journal of Avian Science, British Ornithologists' Union). 1990. pp. 621-622. )〕 John Buxton was born in Bramhall, Cheshire, and educated at Yarlet Hall, Malvern College, and New College, Oxford. Before the war he visited Norway several times and gave lectures on English Literature at Oslo University. He also went on digging expeditions to Palestine and Ireland. He was Warden at Skokholm Bird Observatory in 1939 with his wife, Marjorie (Ronald Lockley's sister), conducting research and bird ringing.〔Shearwaters, p182 Lockley, R M〕 ==Second World War== At the outbreak of war he was reading for his Ph.D. at Oxford. He volunteered for the Navy, but when a special appeal came from the War Office for men with certain language qualifications he responded to that. After little over two months at an infantry OCTU he was posted, as an Intelligence Officer, to the 1st Independent Company (later to become the 1st Commandos) 〔Five Years to Liberty. Pentland Press. 1994〕 to Norway and was taken prisoner early in May 1940.〔''Letters from Skokholm'', R M Lockley; 143,〕 In July he reached Prisoners of War Camp, Oflag VII C/H in Laufen Castle. At this camp, the prisoners organised a 'University' and Buxton gave lectures in English and helped in the work of the library. His love of the countryside and of birds, apparent in his poetry, was a constant solace in camp life and bird-watching was, for him and several of his fellow prisoners, Peter Conder, John Barrett and George Waterston, one of the keenest of their few pleasures.〔Atropos, flyleaf〕 They were brought together in Oflag VIB near Warburg 〔Niemann, Derek. ''Birds in a Cage'' p 79〕 and later in Oflag VIIB at Eichstatt.,〔Mark Cocker. ''Crow Country''. Vintage p178-181, 203-204〕 ''Westward'' was written in prison camp. It was of particular interest that prisoners should be able to carry on their literary work and for it eventually to reach England. John managed, from his prison camp, to get in touch with Erwin Stresemann, who sent him rings to use in the camp and some useful literature, including the scarce first volume of Niethammer’s Handbuch der Deutschen Vogelkunde, now in the Alexander Library at Oxford. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Buxton (ornithologist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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