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Title
Date(s)
- 1921-1948, 1989 (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
2 small boxes (0.018 cubic metres)
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Ronald Mathias Lockley was a conservationist and island dweller who was born in Whitchurch, Cardiff, on 8 November 1903. In 1926 he moved with his wife Doris to Skokholm Island and established the UK’s first bird observatory in 1933. He was the founder of the West Wales Field Society. Ronald Lockley wrote over fifty books and his most famous book was The Private Life Of A Rabbit, which was published in 1964. He emigrated to New Zealand in 1970 and was awarded a Medal of the British Ornithologists Union on his ninetieth birthday. He died on 12 April, 2000, in Auckland, and his ashes were scattered on Skokholm.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Professor Martin Lockley; Golden, Colorado, USA; Donation; March 2017; 99748337402419.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Ronald M. Lockley diaries, 1921-1948, compiled in twelve volumes.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Arranged into one series at NLW: diaries.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions set out in information provided when applying for their Readers' Tickets, whereby the reader shall become responsible for compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998 in relation to any processing by them of personal data obtained from modern records held at the Library.
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
English.
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Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Nature conservation--Wales (Subject)
- Lockley, R. M. (Ronald Mathias), 1903-2000--Diaries (Subject)
- Naturalists--Wales (Subject)
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Rules and/or conventions used
Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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Dates of creation revision deletion
August 2018.
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Sources
The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Ann Lockley, Island Child: My Early Life with R. M. Lockley (Llanrwst, 2013); Douglas Martin, 'Ronald Lockley, of rabbit fame' [https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/24/world/ronald-lockley-of-rabbit-fame-dies-at-96.html, viewed 21 August 2018]; Ronald Lockley obituary, The Economist, April 2000 [https://www.economist.com/obituary/2000/04/27/ronald-lockley, viewed 21 August 2018].
Archivist's note
Description compiled by Ann Francis Evans.