Norman F. Ellison (1893–1976) was an English radio presenter and author who made radio programmes about nature and the countryside for the BBC's Children's Hour,^[1] under the pseudonym Nomad the Naturalist, and wrote on the same subjects both as Nomad and in his own name.

Born in Liverpool in 1893,^[2] he signed up as a private in the 1/6thn (Liverpool Rifles) Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment,^[3] at the outbreak of World War I,^[2] and served in the trenches in Belgium.^[2] He saw action on The Somme^[3] and at Flanders^[3] but was discharged in 1917^[3] suffering from trench foot.^[3] His war diaries were published in 1997.

In later life, he lived at West Kirby,^[4] on the Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire.^[1] He and Eric Hosking would watch birds together at Hilbre Island.^[4] Six of his books were illustrated by his friend Charles Tunnicliffe.^[1]

• Down Nature's Byways, University of London Press, 1938.
• Out of Doors with Nomad (illustrated by Tunnicliffe), University of London Press, 1947.
• Our British birds and beasts (photographs by Hosking, drawings by Alfed K. Wiffen), Open Air Books, 1947
  • Republished by Countrygoer Books, 1953
• Wild Life in Britain, Open Air Books
• Roving with Nomad (illustrated by Tunnicliffe), University of London Press, 1949.
• Adventuring with Nomad (illustrated by Tunnicliffe), University of London Press, 1950.
• Northwards with Nomad (illustrated by Tunnicliffe), University of London Press, 1951.
• Over the Hills with Nomad (illustrated by Tunnicliffe), University of London Press.
• Wandering with Nomad (illustrated by Tunnicliffe), University of London Press.
• A check list of the fauna of Lancashire and Cheshire: Mammalia, Reptilia, Amphibia, 1959
• The Wirral Peninsula, Hale, 1970 ISBN 0-7091-1660-8
• Remembrances of Hell, the Great War diary of naturalist, writer and broadcaster Norman F. Ellison – 'Nomad' of the BBC, edited by David R. Lewis, Airlife, 1997 ISBN 978-1-85310-896-9

• George Bramwell Evens aka Romany.