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'Leonard Hugh Newman', always known as 'L. Hugh Newman', was a British entomologist, author and broadcaster. He wrote many popular books on insects, especially butterflies and moths. With Peter Scott and James Fisher, we was a resident member of the team who presented "Nature Parliament" on BBC radio's Children's Hour in the 1950s. He ran a butterfly farm in Kent (which he inherited from his father), supplying among others Sir Winston Churchill, who bought many butterflies for his house at Chartwell. A collection of Newman's entomological photographs is held by the library of the Natural History Museum in London

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Bibliography (incomplete)

★ ''Talking of butterflies, moths and other fascinating insects'' (1946)

★ ''Butterfly haunts'' (1948)

★ ''British moths and their haunts'' (1949)

★ ''Butterflies on the wing'' (1949)

★ ''Moths on the wing'' (1950)

★ ''Stand & stare'' (1950) with W. J. C. Murray

★ ''Transformations of butterflies and moths'' (1952)

★ ''Nature parliament: A book of the broadcasts'' (1952) with James Fisher and Peter Scott

★ ''Linger and look'' (1952)

★ ''Nature's way : questions and answers on animal behaviour'' (1952) with W. J. C. Murray

★ ''How's your pet?'' (1953)

★ ''The observer's book of common British insects and spiders'' (1953)

★ ''Butterfly farmer'' (1953)

★ ''Butterflies of the fields and lanes, hills and heathland'' (1954)

★ ''Garden and woodland butterflies'' (1954)

★ ''Wander and watch'' (1954) with W. J. C. Murray

★ ''Butterflies of day and night : a book of beautiful butterflies and magnificent moths'' (1954)

★ ''Instructions to young naturalists'' (1956) with Maxwell Knight and W. E. Swinton

★ ''Looking at butterflies'' (1959)

★ ''Hawk-moths of Great Britain and Europe'' (1965)

★ ''Man and insects'' (1965)

★ ''Living with butterflies'' (1967)

★ ''Create a butterfly garden'' (1967), with Moira Savonius

★ ''Ants from close up'' (1968), with Stephen Dalton

★ ''The complete British butterflies in colour'' (1968)