Background
Ash was born in Gosforth, Northumberland on 26 May 1925 as son of Sidney and Kathleen Ash né Denley.
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John Ash
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In 1945, he graduated to Bachelor of Science at the University of Durham. He received the Doctorate.I.C. at the Imperial College London in 1948 and promoted there to Doctor of Philosophy in 1952.
Career
He had a strong interest in the avifauna from the Horn of Africa, in particular Somalia, Eritrea and Ethiopia. He was co-author of two fieldguides, The Birds of Somalia (with John East Miskell) in 1998, and Birds of Ethiopia and Eritrea (with John Atkins) in 2009. In May 1968, he co-discovered the Sidamo lark along with Christian Érard who described this species in 1975 but is now considered as conspecific with Archer"s lark.
He died on 6 January 2014.
In November 1951, Ash married Jonquil Gudgeon, a zoologist, who died three days before him. The couple had one daughter, Caroline Penelope-Jane.
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English