Mr. A. Trevor-Battye

Abstract

MR. A. TREVOR-BATTYE, who died at Las Palmas on December 20, was an accomplished naturalist and Arctic traveller. The second son of the Rev. W. Wilberforce Battye, he was born in 1855 and adopted in 1890 the additional surname of Trevor on succeeding to certain estates that had fallen to his father. After leaving Oxford, Mr. Trevor-Battye indulged his taste for natural history in extensive travels in North America, Africa, the Himalayas, and Arctic Europe. In 1894, in the yacht Saxon, he visited the little known island of Kolguev, in the Barents Sea, with the object of devoting the summer to the study of its bird life. The Saxon, on returning from a cruise to Novaya Zemlya, missed Mr. Trevor-Battye through inability to reach the east coast, and returned to England without him or his companion, Mr. Hyland. The two Englishmen joined a party of wandering Samoyedes and made good their retreat to the mainland by sledge and boat. This was a fruitful expedition and completed the exploration of Kolguev.