L. Hugh Newman

Leonard Hugh Newman, (1909 - 1993) always known as L. Hugh Newman, was a British entomologist, author and broadcaster. He wrote many popular books on insects, especially butterflies and moths. With Peter Scott and James Fisher, he was a resident member of the team who presented "Nature Parliament" on BBC radio's Children's Hour in the 1950s. He ran a butterfly farm in Kent (which he inherited from his father), supplying among others Sir Winston Churchill, who bought many butterflies for his house at Chartwell. A collection of Newman's entomological photographs is held by the library of the Natural History Museum in London

Bibliography (incomplete)

*"Talking of butterflies, moths and other fascinating insects" (1946)
*"Butterfly haunts" (1948)
*"British moths and their haunts" (1949)
*"Butterflies on the wing" (1949)
*"Moths on the wing" (1950)
*"Stand & stare" (1950) with W. J. C. Murray
*"Transformations of butterflies and moths" (1952)
*"Nature parliament: A book of the broadcasts" (1952) with James Fisher and Peter Scott
*"Linger and look" (1952)
*"Nature's way : questions and answers on animal behaviour" (1952) with W. J. C. Murray
*"How's your pet?" (1953)
*"The observer's book of common British insects and spiders" (1953)
*"Butterfly farmer" (1953)
*"Butterflies of the fields and lanes, hills and heathland" (1954)
*"Garden and woodland butterflies" (1954)
*"Wander and watch" (1954) with W. J. C. Murray
*"Butterflies of day and night : a book of beautiful butterflies and magnificent moths" (1954)
*"Instructions to young naturalists" (1956) with Maxwell Knight and W. E. Swinton
*"Looking at butterflies" (1959)
*"Hawk-moths of Great Britain and Europe" (1965)
*"Man and insects" (1965)
*"Living with butterflies" (1967)
*"Create a butterfly garden" (1967), with Moira Savonius
*"Ants from close up" (1968), with Stephen Dalton
*"The complete British butterflies in colour" (1968)