Charles Waterton (1782-1865) was an English naturalist and explorer. He was educated at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire where his interest in exploration and wildlife is said to have been visible. In 1804 he travelled to Guyana to take charge of his uncle"s estates near Georgetown. In 1812 he started to explore the hinterland of Guyana, making four journeys between then and 1824. He later described his discoveries in his book Wanderings in South America (1825). He was a highly skilled taxidermist and preserved many of the animals he encountered on his expeditions. In the 1820s he returned to Walton Hall and built a nine-foot-high wall around three miles of his estate, turning it into the world"s first wildfowl and nature reserve. He also invented the bird nesting box. The Waterton Collection, on display at Stonyhurst College until 1966 is now in Wakefield Museum.