Herbert Stevens

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Herbert Stevens (27 January 1877 – 1 June 1964) was a British ornithologist and entomologist. He worked mainly as a tea planter and left Britain in 1901 to work in India, where he became the manager of the Gopaldhara Tea Estate in Darjeeling. In 1921 he returned to the UK and settled in Tring, Hertfordshire, with his wife Amy. Later in life, he traveled as a naturalist, taking part in the Sladen-Godman Expedition to Tonkin in 1925 and the Kelley-Roosevelt Asiatic Expedition to China in 1928. In 1930–1931 he joined Charles Suydam Cutting's Expedition to Sikkim and Bengal Terai, collecting mammal, bird and reptile specimens for the Field Museum of Chicago. He died in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.