page_title: Stanley Smyth Flower
section_title: Early years
hierarchical_section_title: Stanley Smyth Flower / Early years
caption_attribution_description: English: View of Wellington College main buildings from the south.
context_page_description: Major Stanley Smyth Flower OBE FLS FZS was an English army officer, science advisor, administrator, zoologist and conservationist.
context_section_description: Second son of Sir William Henry Flower FRS and his wife Georgiana Rosetta, daughter of Admiral William Henry Smyth FRS, he was born on 1 August 1871 in the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons of which his father was then Curator, 
   and was baptised in St Cross Church, Oxford on 3 September 1871. Among his first cousins were Sir Archibald Dennis Flower, head of the family brewery, the soldier Nevill Smyth VC, and Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout movement. Taking an early interest in natural history, from the age of eleven he regularly went to meetings of the Zoological Society of London with his father. After attending Wellington College, Berkshire, he studied at King's College London and joined the Artists' Rifles.
   In 1890 he joined the Northumberland Fusiliers, where he received a regular commission as second lieutenant on 23 April 1893, and was promoted to lieutenant on 19 December 1893. With his regiment he went to India and the Straits Settlements, where he studied the fauna.
caption: Wellington College, Berkshire
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