| Authorised form of name | Elwes; Henry John (1846 - 1922) |
| Dates | 1846 - 1922 |
| Date of birth | 26/11/1922 |
| Place of death | Colesbourne, Gloucestershire |
| Date of death | 26/11/1922 |
| Research field | Ornithology |
| Entomology |
| Activity | Education:
Eton
Career:
Entered Scots Fusilier Guards (1865); retired as Captain (1870); his first article was published in the Ibis (1869); collected birds, butterflies and moths on his travels; presented his collection of Lepidoptera to the British Museum; later concentrated on collecting plants, including the Galanthus Elwesii, a snowdrop from Smyrna named after him (1874); British representative at the Botanical and Horticultural conferences, Amsterdam (1877) and St Petersburg (1884); scientific member of Embassy to Tibet (1886), which never entered Tibet; co-wrote 'Trees of Great Britain and Ireland' (published 1906-1913)
Memberships:
FLS; FZS; Royal Entomological Society (President 1893-1894); Horticultural Society
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 03/06/1897 |
| Relationships | Eldest son of John Henry Elwes of Coleborne, Gloucestershire, and his wife Mary, daughter of Admiral Sir Robert Howe Bromley, of Stoke Hall, Newark; brother-in-law of Frederick Du Cane Godman (FRS 1882); married (1871) Margaret Susan, daughter of William Charles Lowndes-Stone of Brightwell Park, Oxfordshire; one son, one daughter |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1923-1924 vol 95 pp xlviii-liii signed by A H |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/62328161 |
| Royal Society code | NA5875 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1897/11 | Elwes, Henry John: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/20/272 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Henry John Elwes, Fellow of the Royal Society | 9 March 1900 |
| NLB/17/294 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Robarts, Lubbock & Company | [4 October 1898] |
| NLB/17/310 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Henry John Elwes, Colesborne, Andoversford, R.S.O., Gloucestershire | 6 October 1898 |
| NLB/18/26 | Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Akademiker Director Wladimir Salensky, Zoologische Museum, Kais. Akademie der Wissenschaften, St. Petersburg | 23 December 1898 |
| NLB/29/420 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Henry John Elwes, Fellow of the Royal Society, Colesborne Park, Near Cheltenham | 11 October 1904 |
| NLB/37/764 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to H [Henry] J [John] Elwes, Fellow of the Royal Society | 9 May 1908 |
| NLB/41/522 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Henry John Elwes, Fellow of the Royal Society | 6 January 1910 |
| NLB/62/296 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Henry John] Elwes Esquire, FRS | 20 January 1922 |
| NLB/56/561 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Henry John] Elwes Eqsuire, FRS | 12 March 1919 |
| NLB/56/563 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Henry John] Elwes Esquire, FRS | 12 March 1919 |
| NLB/57/242 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to HJ [Henry John] Elwes, Esq. FRS | 25 September 1919 |
| NLB/56/915 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Henry John] Elwes Esquire, FRS | 27 June 1919 |
| NLB/61/854 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Henry John] Elwes Esquire, FRS | 4 November 1921 |
| NLB/62/388 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Henry John] Elwes Esquire, FRS | 4 February 1922 |
| NLB/61/872 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Henry John] Elwes Esquire, FRS | 7 November 1921 |
| NLB/64/303 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor A. Henry; 5 Sandford Terrace, Ranelagh, Dublin | 10 March 1923 |
| NLB/16/575 | Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor Dr Fischer von Waldheim, Imperat. Botaniceskij Sad, St. Petersburg, Russia | 2 May 1898 |
| NLB/57 | New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration | 27 June 1919-27 February 1920 |
| MC/34/55 | Letter from [Henry John] Elwes, The Athenaeum, Pall Mall, S.W.1., to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society] | 28 March 1919 |
| MC/34/54 | Letter from [Henry John] Elwes, Colesborne, Cheltenham, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society] | 14 March 1919 |
| MC/34/92 | Letter from [Sidney Frederic] Harmer, 142 Cromwell Road, S.W.7, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society] | 3 March 1919 |
| MC/36/32 | Letter from [Henry John] Elwes, Colesborne, to the Royal Society | 2 February 1922 |
| NLB/64/232 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Augustin Henry; Royal College of Science for Ireland, Dublin | 26 February 1923 |
| MC/37/75 | Letter from [Augustine] Henry, Royal College of Science for Ireland, Dublin, to [Francis Alexander] Towle, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society | 23 February 1923 |
| MC/36 | Volume 36 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1922 |