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| HESLOP-HARRISON, John William | 1881 - 23 January 1967 | Related to George Heslop-Harrison (see above) and recorded to have shared his interest in Coleoptera. There is correspondence with D.J.Jackson in the RESL (Pedersen (2002) p. 84). Gilbert (1977) lists two obituaries: Ent., 100, 1967, pp. 113-114, and Biogr. Mem. Fellows R. Soc., 14, 1968, pp. 243-270 with a bibliography and portrait. (MD 3/03, 11/09) | |
| HEWGILL, Arthur | Published 'Capture of Coleoptera on Penmaen Mawr' in Zool., 22, 1864, p.8904. Is this perhaps the same Dr Hewgill that E.C.Rye refers to as taking Stenus species at Burton-on-Trent (EMM, 1, 1864, p.43)? (MD 3/03) | ||
| HEWITSON, C.J. | Mentioned by Stephens (1828) p.175; Dawson (1854) 24; and J. Morley, Coleoptera of Suffolk, various references. (MD 3/03) | ||
| HEWITSON, William Chapman | 9 January 1806 - 28 May 1878 | Famous Lepidopterist who is not recorded to have had an interest in Coleoptera though it is worth noting that he published 'Note on the capture of Coleopterous insects during a flood' in Zool, 1, 1843, pp.116-117, and he did present 14 Coleoptera from Quito to the NHM in 1846 (1846/62). (MD 3/03) | |
| HEWITT | Coleoptera bearing this name collected in Surrey in 1878 are in the Hall collection at Oldham Museum (Information from Simon Hayhow). (MD 3/03) | ||
| HEY, S | Simms (1968) records material from S. Hey in the W.C. Hey collection at York. (MD 12/21) |
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| HEY, W. | Simms (1968) records material from W. Hey in the W.C.Hey collection at York. (MD 12/21) |
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| HEY, William | ?1811 - 22 November 1882 | W.W.Fowler in his obituary of Hey in EMM, mentions that Hey was fond of pointing out how his life might be divided into decades. In 1824 he was sent to school, in 1834 he took his degree, in 1844 he was made Head Master of St. Peter's School, York, in 1854 he was appointed Honorary Canon of York and Vicar of St. Helens, in 1864 he became Canon Residentiary and in 1874 Archdeacon of Cleveland. Fowler also records that Hey 'was an enthusiastic Coleopterist... The Hydradephaga were his special study, and he thoroughly worked all the waters around York for this group: by far his best and most favourite locality was Askham Bog, from which he was perpetually sending good species to various collectors... In his collection of insects he used to point with special pride to the original Lissodema heyanum, bearing a label in Curtis' handwriting'. Hey published two notes on water beetles in Zool, 15, 1857, pp.5410-11 and EMM, 4, 1868, p.283. His son William Croser inherited his father's interest in Coleoptera, and his collection (see below). Apart from the obituary mentioned above there is another in Ent., 15, 1882, pp.287-288. (MD 3/03) | |
| HEY. W.C. | 1853-19 May 1909 | Son of William Hey (see above) and ordained like his father. He also inherited his father's interest in water beetles and his father's collection. Hey published various notes mainly on water beetles from 1882 when 'Notes on the time of appearance of some rare water beetles' appeared in Ent., 15, pp.211-212. His most important articles were undoubtedly his List of the Coleoptera of Yorkshire' which was published in Trans. Yorkshire Naturalist's Union between 1885 and 1896 and amounted to 96 pages. Adam Parker has pointed out to me that Hey is mentioned in Simms (1968), and that there is a collection of 6,000 beetles in the Yorkshire Museum, acquired in1867, which includes material from Bates, W. Birch, J.C. Dale, J.M. Douglas, C.C. Dupre, S. Hey, Ledbetter, J.A. Power, J.C. Rye, Sharman, and T. Wilkinson. (MD 3/03, 12/21) |
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| HEYSHAM, Thomas Coulthard | 1792 - 6 April 1857 | Often confused with his father Dr John Heysham another well known Cumberland naturalist. Thomas Coulthard was born in Carlisle and devoted the greater part of his life to the study of natural history particularly ornithology, conchology, entomology and botany. He moved to Carlisle where he set up as an ornithological taxidermist. Subsequently he moved to Preston and to Warringtom where he was Curator of the Museum. As an entomologist Heysham was interested in both the Lepidoptera, Coleoptera and other orders. James Murray, in an interesting memoir of Heysham as 'A Byegone Cumberland Naturalist' in Trans. Carlisle nat. hist. Soc., 1, 1909, pp.1-12 quotes correspondemce between Heysham and Rev. W. Little, John Walton, the elder Dale, Sir W. Jardine and others, much of which refers to his interest in Coleoptera and to specific captures. Frank Day in his 'The Coleoptera of Cumberland' which appeared in ibid., 1, p.909 - 5, 1933 (see p. 165) also includes a detailed account of Heysham's interest in Coleoptera. Heysham's collection was auctioned by Stevens in 1859 when the NHM purchased 225 coleoptera and other insects (1859/42) Heysham is referred to by Stevens (1828) pp.65,177-178; (1829) p.22, and by Dawson (1854) pp.55,62. (MD 3/03) |