John Atherton Walpole-Bond, known to his friends as 'Jock' 1878 - 1958.

In May 1888 aged only 10 years old, young John Walpole-Bond began to record details of his nature rambles.
By 1894, his passion for ornithology came to the fore and more serious and detailed records had begun, Bond would grow to have an outstanding knowledge of British birds. It was said that once he had heard a birds note or song, he would have it for life.

E.M. Cawkell a friend of 'Jocks' described him as a tall and to an extent wild looking man, without an ounce of superfluous flesh and very strong.

Bond had an obsession for collecting eggs including those of the Peregrine Falcon from the coastal cliffs in East Sussex, but despite a lifetime of what he himself described as 'unsurpassed looting' he collected 56 years of data on the Peregrine Falcon, detailed in his ornithological diaries which were a testament to his passion for birds.

Bond produced several books during his life notably 'Field studies of some rarer British Birds' and his monumental three volumes on the 'History of Sussex Birds' of which only eight hundred sets were produced, he also produced a draft for a monograph of the Peregrine Falcon which tragically, due to the narrow mindedness of his contemporaries, some of whom chose to criticize his style of writing (something Bond was particularly sensitive to), was never published.