Captain Robert Cecil Beavan (14 August 1841[1] – 3 February 1870[2]), corresponding member of the Zoological Society of London, served in India with the Bengal Staff Corps for 10 years.
He contributed notes to the Ibis journal as wells as the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.
In 1864 Beavan worked at Barrackpore and the winter of that year was spent in the Maunbhoom District, an area studied earlier by Samuel Tickell and Edward Blyth.
Beavan was sent home once to Britain due to bad health, and on his second such trip, he died at sea.
Reginald appears to have communicated some of Robert's papers to the Proceedings of the Zoological society after his death.