L. Hugh Newman

Leonard Hugh Newman, (3 February 1909 - 23 January 1993) was a British entomologist, author and broadcaster. He wrote many popular books on insects, especially butterflies and moths. With Peter Scott and James Fisher, he was a resident member of the team who presented "Nature Parliament" on BBC radio's Children's Hour in the 1950s. He ran a butterfly farm in Kent (which he inherited from his father), supplying among others Sir Winston Churchill, who bought many butterflies for his house at Chartwell. A collection of Newman's entomological photographs is held by the library of the Natural History Museum in London

Bibliography (incomplete)

 * Talking of butterflies, moths and other fascinating insects (1946)
 * Butterfly haunts (1948)
 * British moths and their haunts (1949)
 * Butterflies on the wing (1949)
 * Moths on the wing (1950)
 * Stand & stare (1950) with W. J. C. Murray
 * Transformations of butterflies and moths (1952)
 * Nature parliament: A book of the broadcasts (1952) with James Fisher and Peter Scott
 * Linger and look (1952)
 * Nature's way : questions and answers on animal behaviour (1952) with W. J. C. Murray
 * How's your pet? (1953)
 * The observer's book of common British insects and spiders (1953)
 * Butterfly farmer (1953)
 * Butterflies of the fields and lanes, hills and heathland (1954)
 * Garden and woodland butterflies (1954)
 * Wander and watch (1954) with W. J. C. Murray
 * Butterflies of day and night : a book of beautiful butterflies and magnificent moths (1954)
 * Instructions to young naturalists (1956) with Maxwell Knight and W. E. Swinton
 * Looking at butterflies (1959)
 * Hawk-moths of Great Britain and Europe (1965)
 * Man and insects (1965)
 * Living with butterflies (1967)
 * Create a butterfly garden (1967), with Moira Savonius
 * Ants from close up (1968), with Stephen Dalton
 * The complete British butterflies in colour (1968)