{{Short description|British civil servant and naturalist (1848–1898)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} '''Alfred Hart Everett''' (11 October 1848 – 18 June 1898) was a British civil servant and administrator in Borneo as well as being a naturalist and natural history collector.
==Career== Everett was born on Norfolk Island to British parents: George, the doctor at the penal colony, from Wiltshire, and Anna-Maria, from Jersey. They left in 1851 to return to England via Tasmania, so he was educated in England. In 1869 he went to Sarawak in north-western Borneo in order to collect natural history specimens. After two years there, he entered the service of the Kingdom of Sarawak, as a Resident in the Baram district, under the White Rajahs. In 1878 and 1879, he was engaged by the Royal Society and British Association to explore 'the Caves of Borneo' in search of the remains of ancient man. The explorations were made around Bau and Niah but were unsuccessful in their primary aim<ref>Royal Society</ref> (although the orangutan jaw which later formed part of Piltdown Man may well have been one result).<ref>New Scientist</ref> In 1885, he was appointed the Rajah’s Consul to the Court of the Sultan of Brunei.<ref name="cab"/><ref>SARAWAK News (1885).</ref> He later served in North Borneo in the administration of the British North Borneo Company.<ref>National Museum Wales.</ref>
The British Museum has a large collection of pottery donated to the museum in 1885 by Augustus Wollaston Franks mostly collected in 'Borneo' by A.H.Everett.<ref>https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG9771?id=BIOG9771&page=1#related-objects</ref>
In 1891, Everett became a member of the British Ornithologists' Union.<ref name="ibis">The Ibis</ref> He never married. He died in London.<ref name="cab">Bernau.</ref>
==Zoological collecting== Everett collected for the Marquess of Tweedale and Walter Rothschild, as well as others. He is best known for the collections he made of birds and mammals in Borneo and the Philippines.
==Legacy== Everett is commemorated in the names of several animals, including:
;Birds * Bornean spiderhunter (''Arachnothera everetti)'' * Brown-backed flowerpecker (''Dicaeum everetti)'' * Chestnut-crested yuhina (''Staphida everetti)'' * Everett's thrush (''Zoothera everetti)'' * Everett's white-eye (''Zosterops everetti)'' * Russet-capped tesia (''Tesia everetti)'' * Sumba buttonquail (''Turnix everetti)'' * Sumba hornbill (''Rhyticeros everetti)'' * Tanahjampea monarch (''Monarcha everetti)'' * Yellowish bulbul (''Ixos everetti)''
;Mammals * Bornean ferret-badger (''Melogale everetti)'' * Bornean mountain ground squirrel (''Dremomys everetti)'' * Mindanao treeshrew (''Tupaia everetti)'' * Philippine forest rat (''Rattus everetti)''
;Snakes * Everett's reedsnake (''Calamaria everetti)''<ref name=EDR>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (Alfred, p. 5; Everett, p. 86).</ref> * Jewelled kukri snake (''Oligodon everetti)''<ref name=EDR/> * Sabah striped coralsnake (''Calliophis intestinalis everetti)''
;Lizards * ''Sphenomorphus alfredi''<ref name=EDR/>
;Frogs * Everett's treefrog (''Litoria everetti)''
;Fish * Clown barb (''Puntius everetti)'' * ''Nematabramis everetti'' <small>Boulenger, 1894</small>
;Stick Insect (Phasmida) * ''Lonchodes everetti'' {{small|(Kirby, 1896)}}
;Cockroach (Blattodea) * ''Rhabdoblatta everetti'' {{small|(Hanitsch, 1931)}}
;Praying mantis (Mantodea) * ''Hierodula everetti'' {{small|Kirby, 1903}}
==References== {{reflist}}
===Sources=== {{wikisource|works=or}} * {{cite journal |author= Anon |year= 1898|title= Death of Mr Alfred Hart Everett |journal= The Sarawak Gazette |volume= 29|pages= 136–137}} * {{cite journal |author= M.J. van Steenis Kruseman|title= Flora Malesiana: Collectors: Alfred Hart Everett |url= http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/FMCollectors/E/EverettAH.htm|journal=Flora Malesiana series}} * {{cite book |title= The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals |author1=Beolens, Bo |author2=Watkins, Michael |author3=Grayson, Michael |name-list-style=amp |year= 2009 |publisher= JHU Press |isbn= 978-0-8018-9304-9 }} * {{cite journal |author= Anon |date= 12 January 1885 |title= SARAWAK News |journal= The Straits Times |pages= 3|url= http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article/straitstimes18850112.2.32.aspx}} * {{cite web |url=https://archive.org/stream/genealogicalnote00bern/genealogicalnote00bern_djvu.txt|title=Genealogical notes on the Benests of St Heliers, their ancestors & descendants|access-date= 2010-09-18 |work= Bernau, Charles A. (Compiler) |publisher=Internet Archive }} * {{cite web |url= http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/2768/ |title= Everett, Alfred Hart |access-date= 2010-09-18 |work= Biodiversity and Systematic Biology – Collections Sources |publisher= National Museum Wales |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121002233150/http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/2768/ |archive-date= 2 October 2012 |url-status= dead }} * {{cite journal |year= 1896|title=British Ornithologists' Union, 1896|journal=The Ibis | url = https://archive.org/stream/ibis15uniogoog#page/n11/mode/2up | volume = II | page = viii}} * {{cite wikisource |title=Distribution of Minerals in Sarawak |wslink=Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society/Volume 1/Distribution of Minerals in Sarawak |last=Everett |first=A. Hart |authorlink=Alfred Hart Everett |date=1878 |magazine=Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society |volume=1 |publisher= |location= |page= |pages=13-30 |scan=}} * {{cite journal |author=A.Hart Everett |year= 1880|title=Report on the Exploration of the Caves of Borneo |journal= Proceedings of the Royal Society |volume= 30, London, pp310-324}} * {{cite journal |author=L.Harrison Matthews |year= 1981|title=The Missing Links (10) Will we ever know the truth? |journal= New Scientist |volume= 91| issue = 1260 London, p26}}
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