Person
Cayley, Neville William (1886 - 1950)
- Born
- 7 January 1886
Yamba, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 17 March 1950
Avalon, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Natural history artist and Ornithologist
Summary
Neville Cayley illustrated birds' eggs for the Australian Encyclopaedia (1925-1926) and published What Bird is That? in 1931. This was followed by numerous other publications on Australian birds, his illustrative work extending to both butterflies and animals. He signed his work 'Neville W. Cayley'.
Details
Born Yamba, New South Wales, 7 January 1886. Died Avalon, New South Wales, 17 March 1950. Son of N.H.P. Cayley (q.v.). Educated at art school. Painted mostly birds and held a number of exhibitions; illustrated birds' eggs for the Australian Encyclopaedia (1925-26); colour drawings for G A Waterhouse's (q.v.) What Butterfly is That? (1932) and Ellis Troughton's (q.v.) Furred Animals of Australia (1941); wrote What Bird is That? (published 1931 and reprinted many times) and a number of other books on Australian birds; wrote popular articles on birds for the weekly Sydney Mail. Honorary Member, Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union; Honorary Life member, New South Wales Gould League of Bird Lovers 1935. President, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1932-33; president, Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union 1936-37; Council member, New South Wales Gould League of Bird Lovers; New South Wales National Park trustee 1937-48 and one of the prime movers in advocating the building of the Bird Cabin there.
Chronology
- 1931 - 1950
- Award - Fellow, Royal Zoologcal ociety of New South Wales
- 1932 - 1933
- Career position - President, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Related entries
Parent
Published resources
Books
- Olsen, Penny, Cayley and Son: the Life and Art of Neville Henry Cayley and Neville William Cayley (Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2013), 227 pp. Details
- Prince, J. H., Neville Cayley, his Royal Zoological Society of N.S.W. collection of parrots and cockatoos of Australia (Sydney: Reed, 1980), 80 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Chisholm, A. H., 'Cayley, Neville William (1886-1950), ornithologist and artist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 7 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979), pp. 596-597. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070605b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Cayley, Neville W., 'John Gould as an Illustrator.', Emu, 38 (2) (1938), 167-72. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3338887. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/20929445. Details
- 'Cayley, Neville W (18860107-19500317)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-618028. Details
Reviews
- Olsen, Penny, Cayley and Son: the Life and Art of Neville Henry Cayley and Neville William Cayley (2013)
Wilson, David, Australian field ornithology, 31, (2014), 55-6. Details
See also
- Prince, J. H., The first one hundred years of the Royal Zoological Society of N.S.W. 1879 - 1979 (Sydney: Royal Zoolgical Society of New South Wales, 1979), 81 pp. Details
- Robin, Libby, The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001), 492 pp. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 5 April 2022
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