Lawrence Kilham (10 August 1910, in Brookline, Massachusetts – 21 September 2000, in Lyme, New Hampshire), was a physician, virologist, amateur ornithologist, and nature writer.
Early in WW II, husband and wife went to England, and after D-Day Lawrence Kilham served in field hospitals as a doctor in the Third Army under Patton.
In 1945, Lawrence Kilham returned to graduate school to do research on virology and to teach epidemiology.
... By the early 1950s, Lawrence was serious about birds, joining both the AOU The American Ornithologists' Union and the Wilson Ornithological Society in 1952.
[1] Lawrence Kilham died at his home in Lyme, New Hampshire on 21 Sep 2000.