Background
Gore, Michael Edward John was born on September 20, 1935 in Kingston on Thames, Surrey, England. Son of John and Elsa (Dillon) Gore.
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Pp. 450; 40 color plates, 28 black-and-white photo-plates. Publisher's original lime green textured cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, color map endpapers of Korea Peninsula (front) and eastern Asia (rear), lg 8vo. The only comprehensive guide to the avifauna of the Korean Peninsula -- 230 species are illustrated in full color. The text is in English and in Korean. No ownership marks and few signs of use.
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Gore, Michael Edward John was born on September 20, 1935 in Kingston on Thames, Surrey, England. Son of John and Elsa (Dillon) Gore.
Student, Xaverian College, 1948-1952.
Journalist Portsmouth & Sunderland Newspapers Ltd., 1952-1955. With Ministry of Defense, 1959-1963. British ambassador to Liberia, 1988-1990.
High commissioner to the Bahamas, 1991-1992. Trustee Trust for Oriental Ornithology. Governor of Cayman Islands, 1992-1995.
Chairman Wider Caribbean working group United Kingdom Overseas Territories Conservation Forum, since 1997. Honorary chairman Birdlife Cyprus, since 2003.
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Recorder Cyprus Ornithological Society, 1960-1963, The Gambia Ornithological Society, 1974-1978. Chairman Malawi Wildlife Society, 1985-1987. Vice president Society for the Conservation of Nature in Liberia, 1989-1990.
President Nature Photographers Portfolio, since 2001. Captain British Army, 1955-1959. Fellow Royal Photographic Society.
Member British Ornithologists Union.
Married Monica Shellish, May 19, 1957. Children: Marina Brownlow, Jacqueline Gore Russell, Michelle Boobier.
