R. S. R. Fitter

Richard Sidney Richmond Fitter (1 March 1913 – 3 September 2005) was a British naturalist and author. He was an expert on wildflowers and authored several guides for amateur naturalists.

Life Fitter was born in London, England, on 1 March 1913 and was educated at Eastbourne College and the London School of Economics. He was the only son of Sidney and Dorothy Fitter.

In 1938 he married Alice Mary (Maisie) Stewart (died 1996) and they had two sons and a daughter.

In 1946, Fitter became assistant editor of The Countryman In later life he moved to Great Shelford, Cambridge.

He died in Cambridge on 3 September 2005, survived by his children.

Honours Order of the Golden Ark in the Netherlands (1978)

Hobbies Fitter collected 'bird inn signs.' He wrote about his hobby in the Birmingham Daily Post, published Tuesday 22 March 1955. Fitter wrote that "I just note them down in my diary whenever I see them. I started during the second winter of the war, as a kind of light relief from the somewhat grim preoccupations of those days." By 1955 Fitter had several hundred signs in his collection of some 38 different bird species. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000619/19550322/326/0015