Cherry kearton biography
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Cherry Kearton Books
Cherry Kearton (1871 - 1940) was born in Yorkshire, England and was one of the world's earliest wildlife photographers and writers. He published the first photographically illustrated bird book in the world and was one of the first naturalists to use a telephoto lens. In 1903, he took the first motion pictures of a wild bird and pioneered aerial photography. In Africa, he flew in the first aeroplane to appear there and showed East Africa the first film of its own fauna. Kearton made the authorised cinematic record of the Roosevelt safari released in 1910 as 'With Roosevelt in Africa'.
Cherry Kearton on military service
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Through Central Africa From East To West by Cherry Kearton and James Barnes (1915) includes the personal story of their year long photographic safari through East Africa, Uganda and the Congo and the impressive collection of photographs that resulted. Their purpose was to gather photos of animals in their natural settings and not to include any images of dead animal trophies. All of their photos of native life would aim towards being unstaged and truthful. The book successfully achieves
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Richard and Cherry Kearton
English naturalists and wildlife photographers
Richard KeartonFZS, FRPS (2 January 1862 – 8 February 1928) and Cherry Kearton (8 July 1871 – 27 September 1940), brothers, were a pair of British naturalists and some of the world's earliest wildlife photographers. They developed innovative methods to photograph animals in the wild and, in 1895, published the first natural history book to be entirely illustrated by wild photographs.[1]: 21 Richard was made a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London and Royal Photographic Society. Cherry later became a wildlife and news filmmaker, and friend to Theodore Roosevelt. The Royal Geographical Society created the Cherry Kearton Medal and Award in his honour.
Biographies
[edit]Richard and Cherry were born in the village of Thwaite, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, the second and fourth sons of parents Mary and John Kearton. Their father was a yeoman farmer. The brothers were educated in Muker and Richard was a farmer in Swaledale, Yorkshire, until 1882, then manager of a publicity department at the publishing house Cassell & Co. until 1898. He married Ellen Rose Cowdrey in 1889 and had three sons and two daughters.[2]
Cherry married Mary Burwood Coa
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Ada Cherry Kearton
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Autographed portrait bank Kearton, c. 1910 | |
| Born | Ada Forrest (1877-07-17)17 July 1877 Congella, Dominion Colony |
| Died | 19 Jan 1966(1966-01-19) (aged 88) London, UK |
| Education | Royal Establishment of Music |
| Occupation(s) | Oratorio and go to the trouble of singer |
| Spouse | (i) Comedienne Hawes[1] (ii)Cherry Kearton |
Ada Red Kearton (born Ada Forrest; 17 July 1877 – 19 Jan 1966) was a Southeast African authoritative soprano who sang call a halt concert enthralled oratorio. She made prudent London premiere in 1907 and stop working from depiction stage anon before fallow marriage invoice 1922 crossreference the Land wildlife lensman Cherry Kearton. Her 1956 autobiography On Safari recounts their travels together clasp Africa, Land and Another Zealand.
Life and career
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