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English radio presenter and author
Norman F. Ellison
Born 1893 Died 1976 (aged 82–83) Career Show
Children's Hour Station Home Service Network BBC Country United Kingdom
Norman F. Ellison (1893–1976) was an
English
radio presenter and
author who made radio programmes about
nature and the
countryside for the
BBC 's
Children's Hour ,
[1] under the
pseudonym Nomad the Naturalist , and wrote on the same subjects both as Nomad and in his own name.
Born in
Liverpool in 1893,
[2] he signed up as a private in the 1/6thn (
Liverpool Rifles ) Battalion,
King's Liverpool Regiment ,
[3] at the outbreak of
World War I ,
[2] and served in the
trenches in
Belgium .
[2] He saw action on
The Somme
[3] and at
Flanders
[3] but was discharged in 1917
[3] suffering from
trench foot .
[3] His war diaries were published in 1997.
In later life, he lived at
West Kirby ,
[4] on the
Wirral Peninsula ,
Cheshire .
[1] He and
Eric Hosking would
watch birds together at
Hilbre Island .
[4] Six of his books were illustrated by his friend
Charles Tunnicliffe .
[1]
Down Nature's Byways ,
University of London Press , 1938.
Out of Doors with Nomad (illustrated by Tunnicliffe), University of London Press, 1947.
Our British birds and beasts (photographs by Hosking, drawings by Alfed K. Wiffen), Open Air Books, 1947
Republished by Countrygoer Books, 1953
Wild Life in Britain , Open Air Books
Roving with Nomad (illustrated by Tunnicliffe), University of London Press, 1949.
Adventuring with Nomad (illustrated by Tunnicliffe), University of London Press, 1950.
Northwards with Nomad (illustrated by Tunnicliffe), University of London Press, 1951.
Over the Hills with Nomad (illustrated by Tunnicliffe), University of London Press.
Wandering with Nomad (illustrated by Tunnicliffe), University of London Press.
A check list of the fauna of Lancashire and Cheshire: Mammalia, Reptilia, Amphibia , 1959
The Wirral Peninsula ,
Hale , 1970
ISBN
0-7091-1660-8
Remembrances of Hell, the Great War diary of naturalist, writer and broadcaster Norman F. Ellison – 'Nomad' of the BBC , edited by David R. Lewis, Airlife, 1997
ISBN
978-1-85310-896-9
(Both include photographs of Ellison)