Thomas Coward

Thomas Alfred Coward

Born(1867-01-08)8 January 1867
Bowdon Cheshire
Died29 January 1933(1933-01-29) (aged 66)
Lower Bowdon, Cheshire
Occupation
  • Company manager
  • Museum keeper
Alma materOwens College (now Manchester University)
PeriodLate C19-
Subject
  • Natural history
  • Ornithology
Notable worksThe Birds of the British Isles and Their Eggs
Cover of The Migration of Birds. Aside from the coat-of-arms and lettering, the design is that used by the earliest known Cambridge printer, John Siberch, in 1521.

Thomas Alfred Coward FZS FRES MBOU (8 January 1867 – 29 January 1933), was an English ornithologist and an amateur astronomer. He wrote extensively on natural history, local history and Cheshire.