Sir Charles Langham, 13th Baronet

Herbert Charles Arthur Langham
Herbert Charles Arthur Langham
Born	24 May 1870
Died	3 October 1951 (aged 81)

Sir Herbert Charles Arthur Langham, 13th Baronet (24 May 1870, Cottesbrooke, Northamptonshire – 3 October 1951, Tempo) was an English landowner, photographer, ornithologist and entomologist.

Life

He was educated at Eton and later became a lieutenant in the Northamptonshire Regiment. He married Ethel (known in the family as Jenny) Tennent in 1893 and came to live in Tempo Manor, County Fermanagh, which she had inherited. The house and estate had been built by her grandfather, another naturalist, James Emerson Tennent. Langham was deputy lieutenant and justice of the peace for the county. In 1930 he was appointed High Sheriff of Fermanagh. After his death in 1951, his son John inherited his title and the Manor.^[1]

Photography

Langham used a full-plate camera with a tripod and hand-held cameras manufactured by Leica and Voigtländer and other cameras from the American company Kodak. His subjects included the village and people of Tempo, the Alps, family and the female nude.

Entomology

Drawer of Pieridae from the Langham collection, Ulster Museum

From 1890 Langham spent spring and summer in the French and Swiss Alps. He was primarily a collector. His butterfly and moth collection includes English and Irish specimens. The French Alps, Swiss Alps and Alpine collection is butterflies only and is augmented by specimens (purchased) from Scandinavia, Palestine (ex Philip Graves), Persia, North Africa and Russia.

Sources

^ Maguire, W. A. "Langham, Sir (Herbert) Charles Arthur". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 1 December 2020.

Maguire, W. A and Nash, R. Heydays Fair-Days and Not-so-good Old Days: A Fermanagh Estate and Village in the Photographs of the Langham Family 1890-1918. Belfast: Friars Bush Press 1986. 83 pp. illustrated, paperback.