Herbert Hastings Harington

Herbert Hastings Harington (16 January 1868-8 March 1916) was a British Indian army officer and ornithologist who worked in Burma and wrote on the birds of the region. He died in action in Mesopotamia and was the father of Sir Charles Harington (1910-2007).

Harington was born in Lucknow to Herbert Harington of the Oudh Commission. He studied at Malvern and joined the Welsh Regiment in 1888. In 1890 he joined the Indian Staff Corps and joined the 62nd Punjabis. He married Dorothy, daughter of Walter Pepys, in 1909 and they had a son and two daughters. He died in action at Mesopotamia on 8 March 1916.

He collected many new subspecies of birds some of which were named after him including Anas poecilorhycnha haringtoni (originally described as Polionetta haringtoni by Eugene Oates.) and Garrulus glandarius haringtoni.