Henry H. Slater

Henry Horrocks Slater (1851–26 November 1934) was an English parson-naturalist[1] who studied ornithology, entomology, and botany.

In 1874 he accompanied the botanist Isaac Bayley Balfour and George Gulliver aboard HMS Shearwater on an expedition to observe the transit of Venus on Rodrigues.

[3] His records were used by the zoologists Albert Günther and Alfred Newton to write the first scientific description of the Rodrigues starling in 1879.

In 1897 Slater described the short-tailed parrotbill (Paradoxornis davidianus) and the sulphur-breasted warbler (Phylloscopus ricketti).

He was also a Member of the British Ornithologists' Union (MBOU) since 1882,[7] but he resigned from both organizations in 1906, when he left Thornhaugh.