Thomas Wright Blakiston
1832–91
Explorer and ornithologist. Second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, 1851; second captain, 1858; resigned in 1862. Served in the Crimean campaign. Member of the scientific expedition for the exploration of British North America, between Ontario and the Rocky Mountains, 1857. Explored the Yang-tsze-Kiang river, China, 1861. Merchant at Hakodate, Japan, 1863–84. Eventually settled in New Mexico. Compiled, with H. Pryer, a catalogue of the avifauna of Japan (Amended list of the Birds of Japan 1884).
Source
DNB.
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
