Richard Roy Maconachie

Sir Richard Roy Maconachie KBE, CIE (1885-1962) was an English Civil Servant in India and a naturalist. He studied at Tonbridge School and University College, Oxford before joining the Indian Civil Service. He was British Minister in Kabul from 1930 to 1935 during which time he made a collection of birds which was presented to the Natural History Museum. (BMNH 1935-12-28). These skins became the basis of Hugh Whistler's paper on the birds of Afghanistan in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society in 1944-45.

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* Warr, F. E. 1996. Manuscripts and Drawings in the ornithology and Rothschild libraries of The Natural History Museum at Tring. BOC.