Colin Fforde Wyatt
Colin fforde Wyatt
Colin fforde Wyatt (1909-1975) was a British artist, mountaineer, writer, skier and botanist.
Life[edit]
Wyatt was son of mountaineer and botanist James William fforde Wyatt (1857-1939). He studied at the Academie Delecluse in Paris 1926-28 and the Slade School of Art (1930-31) as well as Central School of Art and Grosvenor School of Modern Art. In World War II he served in the Royal Australian Air Force,[1]
Wyatt was committed to alpine sport and a well-known mountaineer, and member of the British Olympic ski-jumping team. He was a member of the Alpine Club, where he regularly exhibited his paintings.[2]. Two of his paintings were exhibited at the Paris Salon 1928.
Wyatt was briefly married and had a daughter. He was probably bisexual and an article citing the many butterflies identifed and named after him doubles as an appreciation of his life, describing him as a lonely man. [3]. Wyatt lived mostly in Farnham, Surrey, UK but became a naturalised Canadian citizen. He died in a plane crash in a remote part of Guatemala on 19th December 1975, a few days after successfully climbing Pacaya volcano, in an attempt to investigate a newly discovered archaeological site.
At his death he left a butterfly collection of 90,000 specimens, mostly now deposited in the Zoologische Staatssammlung in Munich.[4]
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- ↑ Wyatt, Colin Going Willd - The Autobiography of a Bug Hunter Hollis & Carter, London, 1955
- ↑ Wyatt, Colin, The Call of the Mountains, Thames & Hudson, London 1951. Republished by The Beechurst Press, USA 1953
- ↑ Kundra, Otakar An Annotated List of Butterflies named by Colin W Wyatt, Bonner-Zoologische-Beitraege 32 (1981) Bonn, Germany
- ↑ Kundra, Otakar An Annotated List of Butterflies named by Colin W Wyatt, Bonner-Zoologische-Beitraege 32 (1981) Bonn, Germany
