Edward Armstrong, who died last December aged 78, can be described as a polymath whose interests always centred around living things, particularly birds. As a young child, he became entranced by the beauty of nature and natural things and concluded, while he was yet a small boy, that he himself could find out things which grown-ups did not know. From that moment, he became a practising naturalist.
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