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Colonel '''Charles Swinhoe''' (27 August 1838, in Calcutta<ref>Although many published sources give 1836, the [[India Office Records]] note it as 1838 ({{cite web <br />
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Swinhoe was commissioned [[Ensign (rank)|ensign]] in the [[56th Regiment of Foot]] without purchase in 1855, serving in the [[Crimean Peninsula|Crimea]] and reaching India after the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857|1857 Mutiny]]. He exchanged into a [[lieutenant|lieutenancy]] in the [[15th Foot]] without purchase in 1858 and returned to the 56th Foot in 1859, transferring to the [[Bombay Staff Corps]] later the same year. He was at [[Kandahar]] with [[Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts|Lord Roberts]] in 1880, and collected 341 birds there and on the march back to India. These were described in ''The Ibis'' (1882: 95-126). He was promoted [[lieutenant-colonel]] in 1881 and [[colonel]] in 1885.<br />
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Swinhoe was a keen ''shikari'' and had shot 50-60 tigers. He was also a member of the [[British Ornithologists' Union]] and contributed papers to ''[[Ibis (journal)|The Ibis]]'' on the birds of southern [[Afghanistan]] and central India, and donated 300 bird skins from each country to the [[British Museum]]. While at Mhow he collaborated with Lieutenant [[Henry Edwin Barnes]] on the birds of central India. (''Ibis'' 1885: 62–69, 124–138) He collected insects, chiefly [[Lepidoptera]] from Bombay, Poona, Mhow and Karachi districts. He had one of the largest collections of Indian Lepidoptera at the time (40,000 specimens of 7,000 species and 400 new species described by him), and completed the ''[[Lepidoptera Indica]]'' series after the death of [[Frederic Moore]] in 1907. He also published in the ''[[Annals and Magazine of Natural History]]''. He also wrote ''A Revision of the Genera of the Family Liparidae'' which covered 1130 entries and published a ''Catalogue of the Moths of India'' (Calcutta, 1887–89) with [[Everard Charles Cotes]]. After retirement he settled at Oxford and received an honorary M.A. for his work in entomology. The [[Entomological Society of France]] made him an honorary member.<ref name="bnhs"/><ref name=ibis>{{cite journal|author=Anonymous| year=1924| journal=Ibis|pages=362–363 |volume =66|issue =2| doi=10.1111/j.1474-919X.1924.tb05332.x|title=Obituary: Charles Swinhoe|doi-access=free}}</ref> His Lepidoptera collection was purchased by [[James John Joicey]].<br />
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*[[:Category:Taxa named by Charles Swinhoe|Taxa named by Charles Swinhoe]]<br />
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* ''Lepidoptera Indica''. Scanned volumes [https://archive.org/details/lepidopteraindic01moor 1] [https://archive.org/details/lepidopteraindic002moor 2] [https://archive.org/details/lepidopteraindic003moor 3] [https://archive.org/details/lepidopteraindic04moor 4] [https://archive.org/details/lepidopteraindic05moor 5] [https://archive.org/details/lepidopteraindic06moor 6] [https://archive.org/details/lepidopteraindic07moor 7] [https://archive.org/details/lepidopteraindic08moor 8] [https://archive.org/details/lepidopteraindic09moor 9] [https://archive.org/details/lepidopteraindic10moor 10]<br />
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