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[[File:Frank Ludlow, George Sherriff and Frederick Williamson.jpg|thumb|Frank Ludlow, [[George Sherriff]] and [[Frederick Williamson]], 1933 in [[Gangtok]], [[Sikkim]]|300x300px]]
'''Frank Ludlow''' [[OBE]] (10 August 1885 – 25 March 1972<ref>{{cite book| page=441 |title=Dictionary of British And Irish Botantists And Horticulturalists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers|author=Desmond, Ray| publisher=CRC Press| year=1994}}</ref>) was an [[England|English]] officer stationed in the British Mission at [[Lhasa]] and a [[natural history|naturalist]].

==Life==
He was born in [[Chelsea, London]] and studied at West Somerset County School and [[Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge]].<ref name=obit>Stearn, WT (1974) Obituaries: Frank Ludlow. Ibis 116(2):234.</ref>
Ludlow received a Bachelor of Arts from Cambridge in the natural science in 1908. During this time he studied botany under Professor Marshal Ward, father of [[Frank Kingdon-Ward]]. He taught at Sind College [[Karachi]] (where he became vice principal and professor of biology and lecturer in English).

During World War I he was commissioned into the Indian Army Reserve of Officers as a Second Lieutenant 22 July 1916 and was attached to the 1st battalion, [[97th Deccan Infantry]] 31 January 1917. He was promoted Lieutenant 22 July 1917.<ref>January 1919 Indian Army List</ref>
[[File:Frank Ludlow with Tibetan pupils.jpg|thumb|300x300px|Frank Ludlow with Tibetan students between 1923 and 1926]]
After the war he went into the [[Indian Education Service]].

In the Birthday Honours 1927 (London Gazette 3 June 1927) he was appointed an [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire]].
In 1927 he retired to Srinagar, Kashmir and travelled extensively in the Himalayas including [[Tibet]] and [[Kashmir]]. In 1929 he met George Sherriff while staying in Kashgar with the consul general [[Frederick Williamson]]. He later took charge of the British Mission in Lhasa from 1942 to 1943. During his time in [[India]] he studied natural history and collected birds and botanical specimens.<ref name=obit/> He made expeditions to parts of the Himalayas and Tibet along with [[George Sherriff]] (1898-1967).<ref>Fletcher,HR (1975) A quest for flowers: the plant explorations of Frank Ludlow and George Sherriff told from their diaries and other occasional writings. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.</ref>

He collected nearly 7000 bird specimens which are now in the [[Natural History Museum, London|Natural History Museum]].
<ref>Warr, F. E. 1996. Manuscripts and Drawings in the ornithology and Rothschild libraries of The Natural History Museum at Tring. BOC.</ref> The species ''[[Alcippe ludlowi]]'',<ref>Kinnear,NB (1935) BBOC 55(386):134-135</ref> ''[[Bhutanitis ludlowi]]'' and several other taxa including a subspecies of hedgehog (originally described as ''Paraechinus ludlowi'' Thomas) ''[[Paraechinus aethiopicus ludlowi]]'' Thomas from Hit, Iraq are named after him.<ref>Hatt, R. T. 1959 The mammals of Iraq. Museum of Zoology, Univ. of Michigan No. 106. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/56350</ref><ref>J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 26 (1919):748.</ref>

==See also==
*[[Branklyn Garden]]

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==Publications==
* Ludlow, F. (1920) Notes on the nidification of certain birds in Ladak. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 27: 141–146.
* Ludlow,F (1940) The Long-tailed Duck (''Clangula hyemalis'') in Kashmir. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 41(3):666.
* Ludlow,F (1915) Mallard breeding in the Karachi Zoo. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 23(3):584.
* Ludlow,F (1945) The Persian Ground Chough (''Podoces pleskei''). J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 45(2):233-234.
* Ludlow,F (1945) The Whooper Swan (''Cygnus cygnus''). J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 45(3):421.
* Ludlow,F (1934) Catching of Chikor [''Alectoris graeca chukar'' (Gray)] in Kashmir. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 37(1):222
* Ludlow,F (1928) Dongtse, or stray bird notes from Tibet. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 33(1):78-83.
* Ludlow,F (1916) Breeding of the Marbled Teal ''Marmaronetta angustirostris'' and other birds at Sonmeani, Baluchistan. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 24(2):368-369.
*Ludlow,F; Kinnear,NB (1937) The birds of Bhutan and adjacent territories of Sikkim and Tibet. Ibis 14 1(1):1-46.
*Ludlow,F; Kinnear,NB (1937) The birds of Bhutan and adjacent territories of Sikkim and Tibet. Part II. Ibis 14
*Ludlow,F; Kinnear,NB (1937) The birds of Bhutan and adjacent territories of Sikkim and Tibet. Ibis 14 1(1), 1-46.1(2):249-293.
*Ludlow,F; Kinnear,NB (1937) The birds of Bhutan and adjacent territories of Sikkim and Tibet. Part III. Ibis 14 1(3):467-504.
*Ludlow,F; Kinnear,NB (1933) A contribution to the ornithology of Chinese Turkestan. Part I. Ibis 13 3(2):240-259.
*Ludlow,F; Kinnear,NB (1933) A contribution to the ornithology of Chinese Turkestan. Part II. Ibis 13 3(3):440-473.
*Ludlow,F (1928) Birds of the Gyantse neighbourhood, southern Tibet. Ibis 12 4(2):211-232.
*Ludlow,F; Kinnear,NB (1934) A contribution to the ornithology of Chinese Turkestan. Part IV. Ibis 13 4(1), 95-125.
*Ludlow,F; Kinnear,NB (1940) Systematic notes on Indian birds - V. Ibis, 14 4(1):147-150.
*Ludlow,F; Kinnear,NB (1944) The birds of South-Eastern Tibet. Ibis 86(1):43-86.
*Ludlow,F; Kinnear,NB (1944) The birds of South-Eastern Tibet. Ibis 86(2):176-208.
*Ludlow,F; Kinnear,NB (1944) The birds of South-Eastern Tibet. Ibis 86(3):348-389.
*Ludlow,F (1950) The birds of Lhasa. Ibis 92(1):34-45.
*Ludlow,F (1951) The birds of Kongbo and Pome, South-East Tibet. Ibis 93(4):547-578.
*Ludlow,F; Kinnear,NB (1933) A contribution to the ornithology of Chinese Turkestan. Part III. Ibis, 13(3):658-694.

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