Writer, illustrator, painter, naturalist and teacher, born in Northampton. He studied art in Paris and at the Royal College of Art under William Rothenstein. Became best known as a writer and illustrator of books on natural history and country life under the pen-name B B; he was a fine naturalist and field sportsman. After a period teaching art at Rugby School he chose to concentrate on his own work, which included landscape painting in oil and watercolour but was mainly for the printed page. Although he illustrated the work of others, he produced black-and-white, colour and scraperboard illustrations for several dozen of his own books. The Little Grey Men won the Carnegie Medal in 1942. Died in Oxford.