Frank Buckland

Came across this whilst googling, very interesting and some exceptional info from the 1880's.

Natural History of British Fishes (sic)

Frank Buckland was one of the leading players in the formation of the Mundella Act which made our coarse fishing close season in 1878.

He was a funny old chap. He had a bee in his bonnet about introducing foreign species for food, ornament or sport - strange how a creationist should think he knows better than God what should live where - and his dinner guests lived in fear that something "interesting" might have died recently at the zoological gardens and be served up to them as the latest potential wonder food.

Stories of his kindness abound, but my favourite Buckland story ( as one who finds myself in a constant state of strife with inanimate objects) is of the time he threw a silver-trimmed walking-cane out of the window of a moving train "for being so damned impertinent".

Oh and I think he was responsible for some of the acclimatisation organisations that led to the introduction of rainbow and brown trout into other parts of the world, notably Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.