Arthur Stark
Director/Board Member at NOGIN, INC.
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Arthur Cowell Stark (27 November 1846 – 18 November 1899) was a medical doctor and naturalist. He emigrated from Torquay, England to Cape Town, South Africa in 1892. He lived in (the British colonies of) South Africa during the last 7 years of his life and died during the Siege of Ladysmith at the age of 53. He is best known for initiating an ornithological work, The Birds of South Africa.
Early life
Arthur Stark was born in Torquay as the eldest of three sons of John and Anne Stark. John was a successful ironmonger, and at times a furniture manufacturer. Arthur Stark was educated at Blundell's School and Clifton College. John Stark died in 1863 when Arthur was 16, from which time he took responsibility for the family's business. He worked as ironmonger up to the age of 26, when he married his distant cousin Rosa Cox. For a time they lived in Weston-super-Mare, before Arthur started his medical studies at Edinburgh University at age 30.
South African work
After the death of Rosa in 1892, he settled in Cape Town, while his daughters remained in England. Besides practicing as medical doctor he travelled regularly to collect animal specimens for the South African Museum and made sketches and extensive notes of his observations.
His travels up to 1898 included forays into the inland regions of the Cape, Natal, Orange Free State and Transvaal, while he consulted the major specimen collections of the time, at the South African Museum, Albany Museum in Grahamstown and the Durban Museum. Besides his personal notes, he accumulated bird eggs, bird nests and butterfly specimens, some of which were added to his personal collection.
He moved from Cape Town to Durban shortly before the outbreak of the Boer War and travelled to England in 1899 to oversee the printing of the first volume of his ornithological work, The Birds of South Africa. The completed series was meant to form part of a wider project under the editorship of William Sclater, director of the South African Museum, describing the fauna of southern Africa. Dr Stark returned to the Colony of Natal in September, 1899, where he volunteered as medical officer for the British forces when the Boer War broke out.
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Arthur Stark active positions
Companies | Position | Start |
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NOGIN, INC. | Director/Board Member | 16/06/2023 |
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) was established in 1981 by a group of Holocaust survivors to provide for the well-being of the men and women who serve in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as well as the families of fallen soldiers. The organization provides social, education and recreational programs and facilities. The organization also provides support to widows and orphans of fallen soldiers. The organization is headquartered in New York, NY. | Director/Board Member | - |
Seevix Material Sciences Ltd.
Seevix Material Sciences Ltd. TextilesProcess Industries Seevix Material Sciences Ltd. is an Israeli biotech company that produces biocompatible spider silk fibers. The company is based in Jerusalem, Israel. The company was founded in 2014 by Shlomzion Shen. Shlomzion Shen has been the CEO since 2014. | Director/Board Member | 01/10/2020 |
Former positions of Arthur Stark
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BED BATH & BEYOND INC. | President | 17/05/2018 |
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NOGIN, INC. | Retail Trade |
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20230930-DK-Butterfly-1, Inc.
20230930-DK-Butterfly-1, Inc. Specialty StoresRetail Trade 20230930-DK-Butterfly-1, Inc. engages in the operation of retail stores and retails domestics merchandise and home furnishings. Its products include domestic merchandise and home furnishings such as bed linens and related items, bath items, kitchen textiles, kitchen and tabletop items, fine tabletop, basic house wares, general home furnishings, and consumables. The company was founded by Warren Eisenberg and Leonard Feinstein in 1971 and is headquartered in Union, NJ. | Retail Trade |
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) was established in 1981 by a group of Holocaust survivors to provide for the well-being of the men and women who serve in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as well as the families of fallen soldiers. The organization provides social, education and recreational programs and facilities. The organization also provides support to widows and orphans of fallen soldiers. The organization is headquartered in New York, NY. | Commercial Services |
Seevix Material Sciences Ltd.
Seevix Material Sciences Ltd. TextilesProcess Industries Seevix Material Sciences Ltd. is an Israeli biotech company that produces biocompatible spider silk fibers. The company is based in Jerusalem, Israel. The company was founded in 2014 by Shlomzion Shen. Shlomzion Shen has been the CEO since 2014. | Process Industries |
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