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| Name | Dates | Biography | |
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| HENDERSON, C. | Collected with F.A.Hunter and H.A.B. Clements in Wolverhampton in 1960s and 1970s; specimens are with Leicestershire Arts and Records Service(Fenscore National Database). (MD 3/03) | ||
| HENDERSON, Claude W. | c.1907 – 8 February 1983 | Leicester Coleopterist who was active in the county from 1922 to 1972. As a boy was friendly with Donald Tozer, and Lott (2009) p.27 records that the two grew up in the same neighbourhood and shared an interest in collecting butterflies and moths. ‘One day they went to Leicester Museum ton see the insect collections on display in the public gallery, where they met S.O.Taylor, who was curating the beetle collections... Taylor persuaded them both to take up beetles.’ Henderson became a laboratory technician at Loughborough Training College and was a keen amateur astronomer and gardener, and a passionate photographer of wild orchids throughout Britain and beyond. Lott records that he seems to have stopped collecting regularly in the 1950s. Although he was persuaded to do some collecting in the sixties and early seventies by the activities of the Loughborough Naturalists Club.’ This is presumably when he met F.A. Hunter and H.A.B. Clements in Wolverhampton (Fenscore National Database). Henderson’s collection suffered significant pest damage before it passed to the Leicester Museum on his death (Acc. No. Z90.1983). Lott describes it ‘as beautifully mounted and labelled in a uniform style.It is likely that he systematically relabelled his collection late in his collecting career. There is some evidence that he inadvertently got some labels mixed up, so they have to be interpreted with care’ (p.51). Lott includes a colour photograph of Henderson out collection with Donald Tozer, several charming water-colours of beetles which he painted, and a photograph of one of the very neat original drawers from his collection complete with hand-written labels. (MD 3/03, 11/09) | |
| HENDERSON, J. | Published a number of articles on Lepidoptera and one on the Stag Beetle in Sci. Gossip, 8, 1873, 95. (MD 3/03) | ||
| HENDERSON, John Loftus | 1884 - 13 June 1965 | Only son of John Henderson and Mary Loftus. Educated at Streatham College and joined his father at the printers Waterlows. Emigrated to Canada in 1910 and worked in the timber trade, but when war broke out he returned to England with the Canadian army and was obliged to remain here because of ill health. Subsequently he joined a firm of City accountants where he remained until he retired. He was inspired by his father to become interested in Lepidoptera but by his late teens had taken up the Coleoptera and in particular the water beetles in which he subsequently became very knowledgeable. Henderson added a number of species to the British list including Ceuthorhynchus turbatus Schultz and Chaetocnema aerosa Letzner and showed that Phyllobius artemisae Desb. (vespertinus (F)) was a valid species, he published little else however. Henderson was an active member of BENHS being at different times Treasurer and Vice-President and he bequeathed his collections to the Society. James (1973) describes the bequest as comprising 'his fine collection of British Coleoptera, five Hill units, his binocular microscope and card index of Ashtead, Surrey, Coleoptera' (p.78) K.C.lewis has some specimens in his collection. There is an obituary notice by F.Buck in Proc.SLENHS, 1966, pp.35-36. (MD 3/03) | |
| HENSON, Harold Edward | 9 May 1931 - 2006 | Born at Warrington, Peterborough, Northamptonshire and educated at Kings School, Peterborough. Started working in Peterborough’s Education Department but in 1956 changed career to work in insurance eventually becoming Manager of General Accident in Kettering in 1982. He married and had three children. He started collecting Lepidoptera in 1945 but took up Coleoptera in 1951. Subsequently met up with Donald Tozer who gave him much encouragement and help. Most of his collecting was done within twenty miles of Peterborough, but he also collected all over Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire, and when on holiday as far away as the Spey Valley and the Cairngorms in Scotland, Snowdon and Barmouth in Wales, and the New Forest and Isle of Purbeck in Dorset and Cornwall. Some collecting with his friends Bill Turner and Wilf Russell, was done in the East Midlands. Henson did not publish his records but submitted many lists to English Nature and national recording schemes from various parts of the country. Tony Drane, who first met Henson when they were both collecting at Wicken Fen and subsequently became a lifelong friend, recorded in his obituary in EMM., 142, 2006, 175-176, ‘the warmth of his personality, his ready smile and his keen sense of humour... made him a delightful companion on a foray. He also had a patient tenacity in the field to find the target species and any habitat that he had worked knew it had been searched!’ But Henson was not interested in the smaller species and ‘any beetles under 3mm were ignored unless they were particularly interesting.' In writing to me about his collection Henson stated that it represented all groups except Staphylinidae and water beetles but was strongest in Carabidae, Curculionidae, Cerambycidae, Chrysomelidae, Elateridae and Scarabaeidae. Beetles collected by him may also be found in the collections of A.B. Drane, D. Tozer, P.J.K. Burton and W. Hunt. He was a member of the Northants. Naturalists Trust (from 1970) and Honorary Warden for Castor Hanglands NNR from 1952. The obituary mentioned above includes a photograph. (MD 3/03, 11/09, 1/22) |
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| HEPBURN, Archibald | Published a number of notes on Lepidoptera and 'Glow worm in Scotland' in Zool., 3, 1845, pp.945-946. (MD 3/03) | ||
| HEPPELL, E.E. | Published 'Acanthocinus aedilis in London' in ERJV, 10, 1898, p.271. (MD 3/03) | ||
| HERBERT, Henry Huxley | Lived in Manchester and took a particular interest in beetles. | ||
| HERBERT, W.H. | Published 'Apion apricans and Clover seed' in Ent., 6, 1873, pp.388-389. (MD 3/03) | ||
| HERD, Captain | Gave 27 Coleoptera and other insects from Fort Churchill, Hudson's Bay to the NHM in 1860 (1860/124). He gave his address as 2 Norway Place, Limehouse. (MD 3/03) |