| LC control no. | nb2015004472 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Barclay-Smith, Phyllis, 1902-1980 |
| Variant(s) | Smith, Phyllis Barclay-, 1902-1980 Barclay-Smith, Ida Phyllis, 1902-1980 |
| Associated country | Great Britain |
| Birth date | 1902-05-18 |
| Death date | 1980-01-02 |
| Place of birth | Cambridge (England) |
| Place of death | London (England) |
| Field of activity | Ornithology Translating and interpreting |
| Affiliation | International Council for Bird Preservation Royal Society for the Protection of Birds |
| Profession or occupation | Ornithologists Translators Periodical editors |
| Found in | British birds on lake, river and stream, 1941: t.p. (Phyllis Barclay-Smith) Woodland birds, 1955: t.p. (Phyllis Barclay-Smith) Oxford DNB online, 4 Mar. 2015 ((Ida) Phyllis Barclay-Smith, ornithological administrator; born 18 May 1902 in Cambridge, died 2 January 1980 in London; in 1924 she became assistant secretary of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB); she addressed the seventh International Ornithological Congress on the subject of oil pollution at sea in 1930; in 1935 she left the RSPB to join the International Council for Bird Protection, at first as British section secretary, then sub-secretary to the secretary, Count Lippens; she was to devote a lifetime to it, apparently in an entirely voluntary capacity; she found time to translate several bird books from French and German, and contributed some texts of her own; although not an active aviculturist, she was persuaded to become editor of the Avicultural Magazine in 1938, continuing for thirty-five years) |
| Associated language | eng |
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