Richard Roy Maconachie

Sir Richard Roy Maconachie, KBE, CIE (1885 - 18 January 1962) was an English civil servant in India, naturalist and BBC employee.

Tanner studied at Tonbridge School in Kent, England and University College, Oxford before joining the Indian Civil Service. In 1923, he played billiard with Amanullah Khan, then the Emir of Afghanistan.[1]

He was British Minister in Kabul, Afghanistan from 1929 to 1935.

In 1936, he was appointed as the Director of Talks at the BBC. It was widely considered a "swing to the right".[2]

During his time in Afghanistan, Maconachie assembled a collection of native birds that he later presented to the Natural History Museum at Tring in Tring, England (BMNH 1935-12-28). These bird skins became the basis of ornithologist Hugh Whistler's paper on the birds of Afghanistan in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society in 1944–45.

Literature
  • Warr, F. E.: Manuscripts and Drawings in the ornithology and Rothschild libraries of The Natural History Museum at Tring, BOC 1996.
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References
  1. Maximilian Drephal: Contesting Independence: Colonial Cultures of Sport and Diplomacy in Afghanistan, 1919–1949, in: J. Simon Rofe (ed.): Sport and Diplomacy – Games within Games, Manchester: Manchester University Press 2018, pp. 180–216 (here: p. 191).
  2. Asa Briggs: The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom – Volume II: The Golden Age of Wireless, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1995, p. 138.


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