title: Arthur Urquhart
text: # Arthur Urquhart
  
  Arthur Torrane Urquhart (1839–1919) was an arachnologist and naturalist based in New Zealand.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Urquhart was born in Switzerland in 1839. In 1856, he migrated to New Zealand and lived in a farm in Karaka. He produced eighteen taxonomic papers between 1882 and 1897.
  
  