J. Lewis Bonhote
John Lewis James Bonhote M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. was an English zoologist, ornithologist and writer
His name is mostly written as J. Lewis Bonhote.
Bonhote was born in London and educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was appointed private secretary to the Governor of the Bahamas in 1897, and was sub-director of the Zoological Gardens at Giza from 1913 to 1919. Bonhote was joint secretary of the 4th International Ornithological Congress in London in 1905, secretary and treasurer of the Avicultural Society, secretary of the British Ornithologists' Union and secretary-treasurer of the British Ornithologists' Club.
Bonhote died in 1922 and is buried on Kensal Green Cemetery.
One species of mammal is named by Bonhote: Bonhote's mouse, also Servant mouse Mus famulus.
One species is named after him : Bonhote's gerbil Gerbillus bonhotei, nowadays Anderson's gerbil Gerbillus andersoni.
