Charles Gibson Connell

Sir Charles Gibson Connell WS FRSE LLD FRZSS (11 March 1899 – 26 February 1985) was a Scottish advocate and ornithologist.

He was born in Edinburgh at 13 Cameron Park,[1] on 11 March 1899, the son of Mary Jane Gibson and Sir Isaac Connell SSC.

His training was interrupted by the First World War during which he served in the Royal Field Artillery as a 2nd Lieutenant in Salonica 1917–1919.

In 1965 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposers included George Waterston.

[4] Charles Gibson Connell died on 26 February 1985 and is buried with his parents in Newington Cemetery in southern Edinburgh, opposite his family home on Cameron Park.