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FRANCIS HENRY HILL GUILLEMARD, whose death occurred on December 23, was born at Eltham in 1852. Travel and natural history made a strong appeal to him from boyhood onwards. At an early age he announced his intention of becoming a traveller and a doctor, and his first published work was an article on “Pigeons” in the Boys' Weekly in 1866. Destined for Rugby, he was kept at home between 1866 and 1868 owing to ill-health and afterwards went to a ‘crammer’ at Richmond. By this time he had become an habitué of Stevens' rooms in King Street, Covent Garden, never missing a natural history sale if he could help it and seeing there the great ornithologists of the day—Newton, Lilford, Howard Saunders and others. In 1870 he went up to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he read medicine under Humphry and Paget.
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Dr. F. H. H. Guillemard. Nature 133, 166–167 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133166a0
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