John Richard de Capel Wise
1831–90
Author and ornithologist. Matriculated at Lincoln College, Oxford, 1849, but took no degree. Collected birds’ eggs from an early age and studied zoology and botany on travels abroad. Published poems and a novel, as well as books on natural history and scenery, illustrated by Walter Crane. Wrote the ‘Belles-Lettres’ section of the Westminster Review. His book of poetry, The first of May: a fairy masque (1881), illustrated by Crane, was dedicated to CD.
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ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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