William Ruxton Davison
British ornithologist and collector ( - 1893)
William Ruxton Davison (died 25 January 1893) was a British ornithologist and collector. Davison was born in Burma but grew up mainly in Ootacamund in southern India. He worked as a private collector and museum curator for Allan Octavian Hume before taking up a position in 1887 as the first director of Raffles Museum in Singapore. He is thought to have committed suicide by opium overdose.
Life and career
Davison came from a family originating in northern England. His father married into a family of modest means and was forced to enlist for service in India. His father worked in the Public Works Department in Burma and became an executive engineer. William and his sister were born in Burma. After the death of his father, his mother moved to settle in Ootacamund in southern India. Here William went to the grammar school run by Rev.
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