Nicholas Aylward Vigors

Without completing his studies, he served in the army during the Peninsular War from 1809 to 1811 and was wounded in the Battle of Barossa on 5 March 1811.

[1] Though he had not yet completed his studies, he still published "An inquiry into the nature and extent of poetick licence"[2] in London in 1810.

He provided the text for John Gould's A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains (1830–32).

Vigors lent a skin for later editions of Thomas Bewick's History of British Birds.

On 19 August 1835, Vigors and his running mate, in the two-member county constituency, were unseated on petition.

Painting, oil on canvas, of a toucan by Vigors, 1831
Vigors described the "Sabine's snipe", shown here in a woodcut from Bewick 's British Birds , in 1825. [ 4 ]
Plaques to Vigors in Leighlinbridge