John Richard de Capel Wise (1831–90)

Author and ornithologist. Matriculated at Lincoln College, Oxford, 1849, but took no degree. Collected birds’ eggs from an early age and studied zoology and botany on travels abroad. Published poems and a novel, as well as books on natural history and scenery, illustrated by Walter Crane. Wrote the ‘Belles-Lettres’ section of the Westminster Review. His book of poetry, The first of May: a fairy masque (1881), illustrated by Crane, was dedicated to CD.