Graham Turbott

Evan Graham Turbott QSO (27 May 1914 – 12 December 2014) was a New Zealand ornithologist, zoologist, and museum administrator.

[4] On 7 September 1940, Turbott married the museum's ethnologist Olwyn Mary Rutherford at All Saints' Church, Howick.

[5][2] In 1943 Turbott volunteered to join the Royal New Zealand Air Force, and was posted to the meteorological section.

[2][6] In 1944 he spent a year on coast-watching duties in the subantarctic Auckland Islands as part of the Cape Expedition, which also included Charles Fleming and Robert Falla, but he also found time to pursue his interest in natural history.

[11] He was bestowed with the Robert Falla Memorial Award by the Ornithological Society of New Zealand in 1988, and made a fellow of the same organisation in 1997.

Turbott with zoologist Brian Gill at the Auckland War Memorial Museum in 2012