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
Died	21 January 2013 (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.