Henry Philemon Attwater

Henry Philemon Attwater (28 April 1854, in Brighton – 25 September 1931, in Houston) was a British-Canadian-American naturalist and conservationist.

[1] Educated at St Nicholas Episcopal College in Shoreham, West Sussex, Attwater emigrated in 1873 from England to Ontario, Canada, where he engaged in farming and beekeeping.

In 1886 Attwater with his acquired family moved to London, Ontario, where he ran a small museum, which proved to be financially unsuccessful and closed in the summer of 1887.

In 1900, he moved from San Antonio to Houston to become the Southern Pacific Railroad's agricultural and industrial agent.

[4] Attwater also contributed specimens to the Smithsonian Institution, collected birds for George B. Sennett, and provided notes for W. W. Cooke's Bird Migration in the Mississippi Valley (1888) and the mammal section of Vernon Bailey's Biological Survey of Texas (1905).