Halford, Frederic M. (Frederic Michael), 1844-1914
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Halford, F. M. (Frederic Michael), 1844-1914
Halford, Frederic Michael, 1844-1914
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found: Floating flies and how to dress them, 1886:t.p. (Frederic M. Halford)
found: The dry-fly man's handbook, [1913]:title page (by Frederic M. Halford, "Detached Badger" of "The field")
found: Dry-fly fishing, 1973(usage: F.M. Halford)
found: LC data base, 5/20/87(hdg.: Halford, Frederic Michael, 1844-1914; usage: F.M. Halford)
found: Wikipedia, viewed 6 March 2024:Frederic M. Halford (born Frederic Maurice Hyam, 13 April 1844, in Birmingham, England, to a wealthy Jewish family that moved to London when Frederic was 7 and changed their name to Halford in 1875; attended University College School from the age of 7 till 1860, when he went to work in one of the family's textiles businesses, retiring in 1889 to become a full-time angler; most noted for his development and promotion of the dry fly technique on English chalk streams and generally accepted as "The Father of Modern Dry Fly Fishing"; a founding members of the British Flyfishers' Club; took winter vacations in Europe and the Mediterranean, caught pneumonia on a return voyage and died 5 March 1914 aboard the P&O liner Morea in the River Thames; used the pseudonym Detached Badger)
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- [Pseudonym not found on published works: Detached Badger.]
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1987-06-11: new
2024-03-09: revised
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