Robert Henry Fernando Rippon
British zoologist and illustrator
About Robert Henry Fernando Rippon
Lived 1830 – 1917 (aged 86–87). Robert Henry Fernando Rippon was a zoologist, illustrator, naturalist, novelist, composer and scientific collector.
Robert Henry Fernando Rippon (c. 1836 – 16 January 1917 ) was an English zoologist, entomologist and illustrator. He was a musician for a while but took a keen amateur interest in entomology and published a major multi-volume work on the birdwing butterflies, the Icones Ornithopterum (1898-1906). He also wrote Lilliebright; or, Wisdom and Folly: A Fairy Tale, and Other Tales, and a semi-autobiographical novel, Victor; Or, Lessons of Life. a Tale Founded on Fact (1864).
He also designed pottery for the Watcombe Pottery. They also had a daughter named Faithful Faerie (also known as Faithful Isabel, or “Fran”, born 1868). In 1979, the species was determined to be a synonym of Coelophora inaequalis.
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British zoologist and illustrator
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Robert Henry Fernando Rippon was born in 1830.
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Robert Henry Fernando Rippon died on 16 January 1917.
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Robert Henry Fernando Rippon was a zoologist, illustrator, naturalist, novelist, composer and scientific collector.
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