Frederick William Frohawk
Illustration — Frederick William Frohawk • Illustration — Frohawk's illustration of the extinct dodo for Walter Rothschild's Extinct Birds (1907) Frederick William Frohawk (16 July 1861 – 10 December 1946) was an English zoological artist and lepidopterist. Frohawk was the author of Natural History of British Butterflies (1914), The Complete Book of British Butterflies (1934) and Varieties of British Butterflies (1938). Frohawk was born at Brisley Hall, East Dereham, Norfolk, the son of a yeoman farmer Francis Frohawk and his wife, Lydia Drage.
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Frederick William Frohawk

Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham - in 1891 · Walsingham, Thomas de Grey 1891a. African Micro-Lepidoptera. - Transactions of the entomological Society of London 1891(1):63–132, pls. 3–7 · Public domain
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- 1861
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- United Kingdom
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- painter · ornithologist · lepidopterist · scientific illustrator · scientific collector
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- English
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Illustration — Frederick William Frohawk • Illustration — Frohawk's illustration of the extinct dodo for Walter Rothschild's Extinct Birds (1907) Frederick William Frohawk (16 July 1861 – 10 December 1946) was an English zoological artist and lepidopterist. Frohawk was the author of Natural History of British Butterflies (1914), The Complete Book of British Butterflies (1934) and Varieties of British Butterflies (1938). Frohawk was born at Brisley Hall, East Dereham, Norfolk, the son of a yeoman farmer Francis Frohawk and his wife, Lydia Drage.
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Born at Norfolk in 1861, died in Norfolk in 1946.
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Choreutis flavimaculata
Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham - in 1891 · Walsingham, Thomas de Grey 1891a. African Micro-Lepidoptera. - Transactions of the entomological Society of London 1891(1):63–132, pls. 3–7

Dissoctena affinis
Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham - in 1891 · Walsingham, Thomas de Grey 1891a. African Micro-Lepidoptera. - Transactions of the entomological Society of London 1891(1):63–132, pls. 3–7
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