Geoffrey Matthews

Geoffrey Vernon Townsend Matthews OBE FSB (16 June 1923 – 21 January 2013) was a British ornithologist and conservationist.[1]

Geoffrey Matthews
Born	16 June 1923 (1923-06-16)
Died	21 January 2013 (2013-01-22) (aged 89)
Occupation	British ornithologist and conservationist

Biography

Born on 16 June 1923 and educated at Bedford School and at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he completed his doctorate and post-doctoral research, Geoffrey Matthews was director of research and conservation, 1955–1988, and deputy director, 1973–1988, at the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, Slimbridge. He was also a professorial fellow at Bristol University between 1970 and 1990.[2]

Matthews died on 21 January 2013.[3]

Publications

• Matthews, G. V. T. (1955). Bird navigation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Matthews, G. V. T. (1968). Bird navigation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Matthews, G. V. T. (1971). Vogelflug. München: Goldmann.
• Matthews, G. V. T. (1973). Orientation and Position-finding by Birds. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199141364.

References

1. ‘MATTHEWS, Geoffrey Vernon Townsend’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2013 ; online edn, Feb 2013 accessed 18 Aug 2013
2. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/science-obituaries/9838073/Geoffrey-Matthews.html
3. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/feb/10/geoffrey-matthews

Further reading

• Rees, Eileen; Smart, Mike (July 2013). "Geoffrey Matthews, OBE (1923–2013)". Ibis. 155 (3): 701–703. doi:10.1111/ibi.12068.