Eric Ennion | |
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| Born | Eric Arnold Roberts Ennion 1900 |
| Died | 1981 |
| Nationality | English |
| Alma mater | Caius College, Cambridge |
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| Children | Hugh Ennion (artist) |
Eric Arnold Roberts Ennion (1900–1981) was a British artist, writer, illustrator, and radio presenter,[1] specialising in birds and other natural history subjects.
Following education at Epsom College[1] and Caius College, Cambridge[1] and training at St Mary's Hospital,[1] he worked for twenty years as a general practitioner at a large country practice in Burwell on the fen borders of Cambridge,[1] where he had spent his childhood. A career change in 1945 saw him become warden at the Field Studies Council's Flatford Mill Field Centre,[1] and from 1950, founder and director of the Monks' House Bird Observatory at Seahouses, Northumberland, which he wrote about in The House on the Shore.[1] Ennion was a founder member and Honorary Vice President of the Society of Wildlife Artists.
His son, Hugh, is also an accomplished artist.