Edward Pritchard Gee

Edward Pritchard Gee
Born1904
County Durham, United Kingdom[1]
Died1968
NationalityBritish
Alma materDurham School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge[1]
OccupationTea planter
Known fordiscovery of Gee's golden langur, promoting creation of Chitwan National Park
Notes
Gee was described as: "a fairly built heavy man, balding and wears tortoise shell glasses. He repeats everything twice over, the second phrase tumbling out after the first."[2]

Edward Pritchard Gee (1904–1968) was a Cambridge educated, Anglo-Indian[3] tea-planter and an amateur naturalist in Assam, India. He is credited with the 1953 discovery of Gee's golden langur. He is notable as an early influential wildlife conservationist, especially for his 1959 and 1963 surveys and recommendations resulting in the creation of Chitwan National Park, the first of nine national parks in Nepal.

  1. ^ a b Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, Vol. 65 (1969) – Item Notes, Page 361
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Rangarajan was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Groves, Colin P. (1974). Horses, Asses and Zebras in the Wild. England: Newton Abbot. p. 105. ISBN 9780715363454.