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Colin Smith (lepidopterist)
British lepidopterist (1936–2023) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Colin Philip Smith (24 November 1936 – 4 November 2023) was a British lepidopterist who lived and worked in Nepal. He was widely known as "Putali Bajey" (Nepali: पुतली बाजे ) or "Butterfly Grandad" in Nepal.[1][2] He spent more than 50 years in Nepal studying and writing about its butterfly fauna.[3] He is the author of several books on butterflies of Nepal.[4][5][6] He visited Nepal in 1966 as a teacher under a United Mission to Nepal program. Smith taught some of the most popular Nepali personalities such as Baburam Bhattarai and Upendra Devkota at the start of his career.[7][8]
In 2019, the Nepal government granted him honorary citizenship of Nepal for his achievements as well as international reputation.[4][5][8][9] He is the third person to receive the honour after Sir Edmund Hillary and Toni Hagen, and before Um Hong-gil.[9][10]
Smith died due to a gastrointestinal stromal tumor at Hariyokharka Hospital in Pokhara, on 4 November 2023. He was 87.[11]
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