Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn

Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829–1928) was an artist and amateur ornithologist who lived in the Nilgiris in India. She was born in Salem, India and her father was the Collector of the District, M. D. Cockburn. She made numerous observations on local natural history and many of these were reported in the works of Allan Octavian Hume.^[1][2] She also made paintings of the local birds and flora. The Natural history museum at London produced a diary in 2002 with illustrations made by her of the fauna and flora of the Kotagiri region.^[3]

She contributed towards the construction of a church at Kotagiri in 1867.^[4]

References

1. ^ http://www.archive.org/details/nestseggsofindia01hume
2. ^ http://www.archive.org/details/nestseggsofindia02hume
3. ^ http://openlibrary.org/b/OL11242062M
4. ^ Francis, W. The Nilgiris Madras district gazetteers. page 127

External links

• Pictures from the Natural History Museum
• Gravestone from the Kotagiri cemetery

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Name	Cockburn, Margaret Bushby
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Date of birth	1829
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Date of death	1928
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