Eric Ennion

Eric Ennion
Born
Eric Arnold Roberts Ennion

1900
Died1981
NationalityEnglish
Alma materCaius College, Cambridge
Occupations
  • Doctor
  • Author
  • Artist
  • Conservationist
ChildrenHugh 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.

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Ennion, Eric (1960). The House on the Shore: The Story of Monks' House Bird Observatory. Routledge and Kegan Paul.