Peter Gladstone, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Peter Gladstone

British ornithologist

Date of Birth: 16-Oct-1928

Date of Death: 25-Jul-2000

Profession: ornithologist

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Peter Gladstone

  • Peter Gladstone (16 October 1928 – 25 July 2000) was a British naturalist and wildfowl expert and patent attorney.
  • He was the great grandson of the Liberal prime minister William Ewart Gladstone, and brother of Sir William Gladstone, 7th Baronet.
  • He grew up at Hawarden Castle in Wales, and attended Eton College, where his father, Charles Gladstone, was a housemaster.
  • He served in the Palestine Police in 1946, towards the end of the British Mandate of Palestine.
  • From 1949 to 1952 he studied biology at Christ Church, Oxford, and rowed for Oxford in the 1952 Boat Race.
  • He went on to teach biology at Shrewsbury School until 1971, when he joined Sir Peter Scott's Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust.
  • Gladstone developed the trust's wildfowl reserve at Martin Mere in Lancashire.
  • In the 1970s he took over the management of Fasque House, a family property in Aberdeenshire.
  • In 1998 he journeyed to Tibet in an unsuccessful search for the pink-headed duck.
  • He was a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
  • Gladstone died of a heart attack at the age of 71.

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