Stanley Smyth Flower

Major Stanley Smyth Flower OBE
Born	1 August 1871 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, England
Died	3 February 1946 Tring, Hertfordshire, England
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Rank	Major
Unit	Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
Commands held	Egyptian Camel Transport Corps
Battles/wars	World War I Sinai and Palestine Campaign
Awards	OBE
Other work	Zoologist

Major Stanley Smyth Flower OBE FLS FZS (1 August 1871 – 3 February 1946) was an English army officer, science advisor, administrator, zoologist and conservationist.

Second son of Sir William Henry Flower FRS and his wife Georgiana Rosetta, daughter of Admiral William Henry Smyth FRS, he was born on 1 August 1871 in the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons of which his father was then Curator,

and was baptised in St Cross Church, Oxford on 3 September 1871. Among his first cousins were Sir Archibald Dennis Flower, head of the family brewery, the soldier Nevill Smyth VC, and Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout movement. Stanley took an early interest in natural history and from the age of eleven regularly went to meetings of the Zoological Society of London with his father. After attending Wellington College, Berkshire, he studied at King's College London and joined the Artists' Rifles. In 1890 he obtained a regular commission in the Northumberland Fusiliers. With his regiment he went to India and the Straits Settlements, where he studied the fauna.

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