. The Canadian field-naturalist. A Tribute to John Launcelot Cranmer-Byng, 1919-1999 W. Earl Godfrey 4 Sioux Crescent, Nepean, Ontario, K2H 7E5 Canada Godfrey, W. Earl. 2000. A tribute to John Launcelot Cranmer-Byng, 1919-1999. Canadian Field-Naturalist 114(4): 710-71L John L. Cranmer-Byng (Jack to his family and friends) is particularly familiar to readers of this jour- nal for his scholarly book-length biography of ornithologist Percy Taverner, which appeared as a Special Issue of The Canadian Field-Naturalist, 1996, 110(1): 1-254. A historian by profession, he had a deep and active concern
. The Canadian field-naturalist. A Tribute to John Launcelot Cranmer-Byng, 1919-1999 W. Earl Godfrey 4 Sioux Crescent, Nepean, Ontario, K2H 7E5 Canada Godfrey, W. Earl. 2000. A tribute to John Launcelot Cranmer-Byng, 1919-1999. Canadian Field-Naturalist 114(4): 710-71L John L. Cranmer-Byng (Jack to his family and friends) is particularly familiar to readers of this jour- nal for his scholarly book-length biography of ornithologist Percy Taverner, which appeared as a Special Issue of The Canadian Field-Naturalist, 1996, 110(1): 1-254. A historian by profession, he had a deep and active concern for the welfare of the natural world, birds in particular. Jack was bom on 18 March 1919 in England in farming country where birds were plentiful. On his ninth birthday, he was given a three-volume illustrat- ed bird book. Thus developed an early mature interest in nature that lasted a lifetime. He majored in history at Cambridge University, graduating with honours in 1940. Even as he wrote his exams, the Second World War was exploding and the student quickly became a military recruit. He enlisted in 1940 as a parachutist in the British Airborne Division, and by 1944 had risen to the rank of Captain. His distinguished mili- tary career, in the course of which he was awarded the Military Cross, took him out of civilian life for six years. The war over, Jack returned to Cambridge where he took up study of the Chinese language. In 1954, he moved to Singapore to continue his studies of Chinese. It was there he met Margaret, his future wife, who was passing through Singapore en route to take a position in Bangkok. They were married in Singapore in 1955. A year later they moved to Hong Kong where, as Lecturer at the University of Hong Kong, Jack taught and researched various aspects of Chinese history, published a book and several articles. He retained his interest in birds and was an active mem- ber of the Hong Kong Bird Watching Society. It was during this time that the couple's th
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