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{{Short description|Scottish natural historian and author (1914β1969)}} {{For|the canoer|Gavin Maxwell (canoeist)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2014}} {{Infobox writer | name = Gavin Maxwell | image = Gavin Maxwell.jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1914|07|15|df=yes}} | birth_place = House of [[Elrig]], Wigtownshire, Scotland | death_date = {{Death date and age|1969|09|07|1914|07|15|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Inverness]], Scotland<ref>{{cite book | author=Botting, Douglas |title=Gavin Maxwell, A Life |publisher=HarperCollins |year=1993 |page=576 |isbn=0-246-13046-6}}</ref> | resting_place = | occupation = Author | alma_mater = [[Hertford College, Oxford]] | period = | genre = [[Natural history]], [[Travel literature]] | notableworks = ''[[Ring of Bright Water]]'' | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | awards = | education = [[Stowe School]] }} '''Gavin Maxwell''' <small>[[Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature|FRSL]] [[Zoological Society of London|FZS]] [[Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society|FRGS]]</small> (15 July 1914{{spaced ndash}}7 September 1969) was a Scottish [[Natural history|naturalist]] and author, best known for his [[nonfiction|non-fiction]] writing and his work with [[European otter|otter]]s. He became most famous for ''[[Ring of Bright Water]]'' (1960) and its sequels, which described his experiences raising Iraqi and West African otters on the west coast of Scotland. One of his Iraqi otters was of a previously unknown sub-species which was subsequently named after Maxwell. ''Ring of Bright Water'' sold more than a million copies and was made into [[Ring of Bright Water (film)|a film]] starring [[Bill Travers]] and [[Virginia McKenna]] in 1969.<ref name="telegraph.co.uk">{{Cite web|title=The dark love behind A Ring of Bright Water|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1498143/The-dark-love-behind-A-Ring-of-Bright-Water.html|access-date=2021-11-14|website=www.telegraph.co.uk|date=11 September 2005 }}</ref> His other books described sharking in the Hebrides and his travels in Iraq, Morocco, and Algeria, as well as studies of recent history in Sicily and Morocco.
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