William Herring

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William Herring
Profession zoo director
Personal details
Born ? in United Kingdom
Dead ? in United Kingdom

Spouse(s) 1817 Anne Cross

Country United Kingdom

Locations
Title owner 1813-1820
Location at The Original Menagerie in United Kingdom

Biography details

William Herring , zoo director in United Kingdom

Born ? in United Kingdom dead ? in United Kingdom .

W. Herring, dealer in all sorts of pheasants, fancy poultry, swans, water fowl, gold and silver fish, sporting and fancy dogs : menagerie, New Road, near Regents Park, London, late Brookes.

William Herring became proprietor of the menagerie on New Road in 1813, following prior ownership by Joshua Brookes (d. 1803) and Paul Brookes. See: Plumb, C. The Georgian menagerie. London : I.B. Tauris, 2015 (pages 31-33). Herring was the original owner of Jacques Laurent Agasse's Zebra (1803), an oil painting now in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art.


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References

Koehl, Dan, (2024). director William Herring in United Kingdom. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 11 October 2024 at https://www.elephant.se/person.php?id=1067. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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