Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Alan Owston (1853–1915) was born on 7 August 1853 at Pirbright, Surrey and was buried on 30 November 1915 at Yokohama in Japan.He was a collector of Asian wildlife, businessman and yachtsman, and founded the Yokohama Yacht Club in Japan.Alan Owston left England for Asia in 1871, working as a merchant in Japan and was also busy as an amateur naturalist.The Owston's palm civet or Owston's civet (Chrotogale owstoni) is named after him.Owston collected or arranged to have collected a wide range of marine specimens, notably fish from Japan and China, a collection once hailed "one of the most important collections of its kind". . }
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- Alan_Owston comment "Alan Owston (1853–1915) was born on 7 August 1853 at Pirbright, Surrey and was buried on 30 November 1915 at Yokohama in Japan.He was a collector of Asian wildlife, businessman and yachtsman, and founded the Yokohama Yacht Club in Japan.Alan Owston left England for Asia in 1871, working as a merchant in Japan and was also busy as an amateur naturalist.The Owston's palm civet or Owston's civet (Chrotogale owstoni) is named after him.Owston collected or arranged to have collected a wide range of marine specimens, notably fish from Japan and China, a collection once hailed "one of the most important collections of its kind". ".