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He was born to Thomas Waterton and Anne Bedingfiel at Walton Hall, near Pontefract, Yorkshire, on the 3rd of June 1782.
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He was born to Thomas Waterton and Anne Bedingfiel at Walton Hall, near Pontefract, Yorkshire, on the 3rd of June 1782.
After being educated at the Roman Catholic college of Stonyhurst, and travelling a short time in Spain, he went to Demerara to manage some estates belonging to his family.
He continued in this occupation for about eight years, when he began those wanderings upon the results of which his fame as a naturalist principally rests. In his first journey, which began in 1812, and the principal object of which was to collect the poison known as curare, he travelled through British Guiana by the Demerara and Essequibo rivers to the frontiers of Brazil, making many natural history collections and observations by the way.
After spending some time in England he returned to South America in 1816, going by Pernambuco and Cayenne to British Guiana, where again he devoted his time to the most varied observations in natural history.
For the third time, in 1820, he sailed from England for Demerara, and he spent his time in similar pursuits. Another sojourn in England of about three years'was followed by a visit to the United States in 1824; and, having touched at several of the West India islands, he again went on to Demerara, returning to England at the end of the year.
In 1828 he published the results of his four journeys, under the title of Wanderings in South America consisting largely of a collection of observations on thesThe question of revising the limits fixed for Territorial Waters in the Convention of 1882 was the subject of an animated discussion at the conference at Hull of the National Sea Fisheries Protection Association in 1906, when a resolution was adopted in favour of maintaining the present 3-miles limit on grounds ol expediency, which deserve serious consideration appearance, character and habits of many of the animals to be found in British Guiana.
After his marriage in 1829 from that time he lived mostly at Walton Hall, devoting himself to the improvement of his estate, to country pursuits, and to natural history observations. He also published three series of Essays in Natural History (1838, 1844, 1857).
He died at Wallon Hall on the 27th of May 1865, from the result of an accident.
Waterton died after fracturing his ribs and injuring his liver in a fall on his estate. His coffin was taken from the hall by barge to his chosen resting place, near the spot where the accident happened, in a funeral cortege led by the Bishop of Beverley, and followed at the lakeside by many local people. The grave was between two oak trees, which have since disappeared.
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Waterton was of a Roman Catholic landed gentry family descended from Reiner de Waterton.
Waterton Was a keen and accurate observer, and his descriptions are of a graphic and humorous character, rarely to be found in works on natural history.
On 11 May 1829, at the age of 47, Waterton married 17-year-old Anne Edmonstone, the granddaughter of an Arawak Indian. His wife died shortly after giving birth to their son, Edmund, when she was only 18.
His only son, Edmund Waterton (1830 - 1887), was an antiquary, who paid special attention to rings; some of those he collected are in the Victoria and Albert Museum.