L. Hugh Newman

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)