Norman Ellison Explained

Norman F. Ellison
Birth Date:	1893
Show:	Children's Hour
Station:	Home Service
Network:	BBC
Country:	United Kingdom

Norman F. Ellison (1893–1976) was an English radio presenter and author who made radio programmes about nature and the countryside for the BBC's Children's Hour,^[1] under the pseudonym Nomad the Naturalist, and wrote on the same subjects both as Nomad and in his own name. Born in Liverpool in 1893,^[2] he signed up as a private in the 1/6thn (Liverpool Rifles) Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment,^[3] at the outbreak of World War I, and served in the trenches in Belgium. He saw action on The Somme and at Flanders but was discharged in 1917^[3] suffering from trench foot.^[3] His war diaries were published in 1997.

In later life, he lived at West Kirby,^[4] on the Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire. He and Eric Hosking would watch birds together at Hilbre Island. Six of his books were illustrated by his friend Charles Tunnicliffe.

Bibliography

• Down Nature's Byways, University of London Press, 1938.
• Out of Doors with Nomad (illustrated by Tunnicliffe), University of London Press, 1947.
• Our British birds and beasts (photographs by Hosking, drawings by Alfed K. Wiffen), Open Air Books, 1947
  • Republished by Countrygoer Books, 1953
• Wild Life in Britain, Open Air Books
• Roving with Nomad (illustrated by Tunnicliffe), University of London Press, 1949.
• Adventuring with Nomad (illustrated by Tunnicliffe), University of London Press, 1950.
• Northwards with Nomad (illustrated by Tunnicliffe), University of London Press, 1951.
• Over the Hills with Nomad (illustrated by Tunnicliffe), University of London Press.
• Wandering with Nomad (illustrated by Tunnicliffe), University of London Press.
• A check list of the fauna of Lancashire and Cheshire: Mammalia, Reptilia, Amphibia, 1959
• The Wirral Peninsula, Hale, 1970
• Remembrances of Hell, the Great War diary of naturalist, writer and broadcaster Norman F. Ellison – 'Nomad' of the BBC, edited by David R. Lewis, Airlife, 1997

See also

• George Bramwell Evens aka Romany.

External links

(Both include photographs of Ellison)

• Nomad Books on the Charles Tunnicliffe Society website
• The Hilbre Party
• Reference to Norman Ellison's Year of Death

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Nomad Books. The Charles Tunnicliffe Society. 2009-07-29.
2. Web site: Remembrances of Hell.... Library Catalogue. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 2009-07-29.
3. Book: Lengel, Edward G.. World War I memories. 101. 2009-07-29 . 978-0-8108-5008-8 . 2004 . Scarecrow Press.
4. Web site: The Hilbre Party. Smith. Richard. 1999-11-01. Dee Estuary Newsletter. 2009-07-29.