Person Open DS/UK/1461 Attenborough; Sir; David (8 May 1926); OM CH CVO CBE FRS FRSB FRSA FLS FZS FSA FRSGS; English broadcaster and natural historian Attenborough David Sir 8 May 1926 English broadcaster and natural historian Male (cisgender) David Frederick Attenborough Isleworth, Middlesex, England (born)

English Media; Presenter Sciences; Natural World White No known disability No known religious affiliation Son of Mary Clegg (founding member of the Marriage Guidance Council) and Frederick Levi Attenborough (scholar and academic administrator) Sibling of Richard Attenborough (director, producer and actor) and John Attenborough (executive at Alfa Romeo). During the Second World War, through a British volunteer network known as the Refugee Children's Movement, his parents also fostered two Jewish refugee girls from Europe (Helga and Irene Bejach) Heterosexual Sir David Attenborough is an English broadcaster and natural historian. He is best known for writing and presenting, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, the nine natural history documentary series forming the Life collection that together constitute a comprehensive survey of animal and plant life on Earth. He is a former senior manager at the BBC, having served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s. Attenborough is widely considered a national treasure in the UK. In 2002, he was named among the 100 Greatest Britons following a UK-wide poll for the BBC. Awards, Honours and Legacy: He was appointed Knight Bachelor in the 1985 Birthday Honours, and Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) for producing Queen Elizabeth II's Christmas broadcast for a number of years from 1986 in the 1991 Birthday Honours. Attenborough is the only person to have won BAFTAs for programmes in each of black and white, colour, HD, 3D and 4K. In 2018 and 2019, he received Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Narrator. At least 20 species and genera, both living and extinct, have been named in Attenborough's honour. Plants named after him include an alpine hawkweed (Hieracium attenboroughianum) discovered in the Brecon Beacons, a species of Ecuadorian flowering tree (Blakea attenboroughi), one of the world's largest-pitchered carnivorous plants (Nepenthes attenboroughii), along with a genus of flowering plants (Sirdavidia). Arthropods named after Attenborough include a butterfly, Attenborough's black-eyed satyr (Euptychia attenboroughi), a dragonfly, Attenborough's pintail (Acisoma attenboroughi), a millimetre-long goblin spider (Prethopalpus attenboroughi), an Indonesian flightless weevil (Trigonopterus attenboroughi), a Madagascan ghost shrimp (Ctenocheloides attenboroughi), and a soil snail (Palaina attenboroughi). The Monogenean Cichlidogyrus attenboroughi, a parasite from a deep-sea fish in the Lake Tanganyika, is probably the only parasite species named after him. Vertebrates have also been named after Attenborough, including a Namibian lizard (Platysaurus attenboroughi), a bird (Polioptila attenboroughi), a Peruvian frog (Pristimantis attenboroughi), a Madagascan stump-toed frog (Stumpffia davidattenboroughi), and one of only four species of long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Attenborough (2020) International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes RAHSkeyte 9/4/2012 RAHAKirkbride 11/7/2022 c13998d7-6f42-4408-87e9-c1ab90f0c897