Thomas Wright Blakiston (1832–91)

Explorer and ornithologist. Second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, 1851; second captain, 1858; resigned in 1862. Served in the Crimean campaign. Member of the scientific expedition for the exploration of British North America, between Ontario and the Rocky Mountains, 1857. Explored the Yang-tsze-Kiang river, China, 1861. Merchant at Hakodate, Japan, 1863–84. Eventually settled in New Mexico. Compiled, with H. Pryer, a catalogue of the avifauna of Japan (Amended list of the Birds of Japan 1884).