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14-684: Tilson is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Charles Henry Tilson Marshall (1841–1927), British Army Officer, serving in the Punjab, India Charles Tilson-Chowne (1881-?), British stage and film actor Charlie Tilson (born 1992), American baseball player David Tilson (born 1941), politician in Ontario, Canada Fred Tilson (1904–1972), association football player for Manchester City and England George Tilson (1672–1738), British civil servant, long-serving Under-Secretary of State in

28-599: A collection of plant specimens from southern Africa. His findings were published as a joint paper in Transactions of the Entomological Society of London in 1902. Poulton later helped Marshall in obtaining an appointment at Sarawak Museum . Marshall, however, became ill during a stay-over in London. When some of his papers on weevils were published, he was offered an appointment as scientific secretary to

42-462: A district judge. Both Guy's father and his uncle, Major-General George Frederick Leycester Marshall (1843–1934), were naturalists who had produced books on the birds and butterflies of India , Burma , and Ceylon . Marshall was sent from India to a school in Margate where he started a butterfly collection. He transferred his attentions to beetles when he enrolled at Charterhouse . When he failed

56-650: The Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux ( CAB ). Marshall established the biological control service at Farnham House, giving rise to a global network of laboratories and creating two scientific publications: the Bulletin of Entomological Research and the Review of Applied Entomology . Marshall's organisation took on the enormous task of writing up the ‘ Insecta ’ division of The Zoological Record . In 1916 he received an honorary doctorate from

70-649: The Entomological Research Committee (Tropical Africa). The committee's function was to post field entomologists to East and West Africa who would study insects harmful to humans, crops and animals and send specimens to the Natural History Museum in London for identification. Under Marshall's management the Committee grew into a powerful and efficient body. Eventually all the agricultural information services were merged as

84-847: The Indian Civil Service entrance examination, his father shipped him off to Natal in South Africa to learn sheep farming. He ended up in Rhodesia , managing the Salisbury District and Estates Company and owning two farms, one managed by Charles Francis Massy Swynnerton . Marshall corresponded with the prominent Darwinian , Edward Bagnall Poulton , Hope Professor of Zoology at Oxford University who had written The Colours of Animals (1890). Poulton urged Marshall to study insect colours in mimicry and camouflage. Throughout this research project Marshall put together

98-934: The University of Oxford for his contribution to economic entomology . He was elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society of London Marshall received many honors – he was elected to the Royal Society , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the Royal Society of New Zealand , the Indian Institute of Science , the Royal Belgian Entomological Society , and the Russian Entomological Society . He

112-623: The Foreign Office Jake Tilson (born 1958) British artist Joe Tilson (artist) (1928–2023) British artist John Q. Tilson (1866–1958), Republican politician in the United States, on both state and national levels, and a lawyer John Tilson (cricketer) (1845–1895), English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1871 and 1876 Michael Tilson Thomas (born 1944), American conductor, pianist and composer Sumner Dewey Tilson (1898–1964), head coach of

126-573: The Virginia Tech college football program during the 1942 season Steve Tilson (born 1966), English football manager and former player Tilson Brito (born 1972), Dominican third baseman Tilson Pritchard (1872–1894), English footballer who played in the Football League for Small Heath William Josiah Tilson (1871–1949), United States federal judge See also [ edit ] Red Tilson Trophy , annual award given to

140-497: The most outstanding player in the Ontario Hockey League Tilson's Manual , or A Manual of Parliamentary Procedure , a parliamentary authority written by John Q. Tilson and published in 1948 [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Tilson . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding

154-417: The person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tilson&oldid=1188352484 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Charles Henry Tilson Marshall Charles Henry Tilson Marshall (1841 – 20 January 1927 )

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168-538: Was a British Army Officer, serving in the Punjab, India . In his spare time he collected birds in the Punjab and the Himalayas, and sent these to Allan Octavian Hume . He was the brother of George Frederick Leycester Marshall , with whom he published ornithological articles in The Ibis . He wrote The Game Birds of India, Burmah and Ceylon along with Allan Octavian Hume in three volumes between 1878 and 1880. He

182-666: Was awarded l’Ordre de la Couronne from the Belgian Government, a CMG in 1920, a knighthood in 1930, and with his retirement in 1942, the KCMG . Marshall's identification work at the institute led to his extensive knowledge of insect taxonomy. His specialising in the Curculionidae was by accident rather than design, as they were the only group left intact after a trip to England in 1896. In total he wrote up some 2300 new species in some 200 papers. After his retirement

196-495: Was the father of entomologist Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall . This article about a British ornithologist is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall Marshall was the youngest of three children born to Laura Frances Pollock (1846–1912), daughter of Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet and Chief Baron of the Exchequer , and Colonel Charles Henry Tilson Marshall (1841–1927),

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