Haydon Warren-Gash


Haydon Warren-Gash is a retired British diplomat, a noted lepidopterist who has described several new species.

Diplomatic career

Haydon Boyd Warren-Gash was educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1971 and after language training at SOAS served at Ankara, Madrid and Paris as well as at the FCO. He was deputy High Commissioner at Nairobi 1991–94; head of the Southern Europe department at the FCO 1994–97; Ambassador to Côte d’Ivoire, Niger, Burkina Faso and Liberia 1997–2001 ; Ambassador to Morocco and Mauritania 2002–05; and Ambassador to Colombia 2005–08.

Lepidopterology

Warren-Gash is a lepidopterist. While he was ambassador to Colombia he was accused of collecting rare butterflies without a licence, which he denied. He has described the following species:
Various species are named after Warren-Gash: