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| Name | Dates | Biography | |
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| LOCKWOOD, Mrs | Gave 21 Coleoptera from Brazil to Sheffield Museum in 1885. (MD 11/03) | ||
| LOGAN, Robert Francis | 1827 – 28 July 1887 | Lived at Colinton, near Edinburgh. Primarily a Lepidopterist but he did have some involvement with Coleoptera in c. 1850 - several of his captures are mentioned by Murray (1853) - before he turned his attention to beetles again in c.1884. A note published in EMM., 23, 1887, p.189, entitled ‘Scottish Coleoptera’, states ‘until the last three or four years I have not been working at Coleoptera for a long time’. Three other short notes in this same volume also mention beetles. The RSM purchased a collection of British Coleoptera from Logan in two parts each containing 480 specimens in 1884 and 1885 (1884-33 for £8, and 1885-59 for 4d per specimen). (MD 11/03) | |
| LONGDON, M. | Listed as a subscriber to the Coleopterists Newsletter in 1981 (MD 1/22) |
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| LORIMER, Vincent W.H. | b. 1955 | Educated at Mill Hill School and Pembroke College, Oxford. Worked as a Chartered Accountant in Australia. A collection of c.450 species from Orkney; Sorrells Wood, Berkshire; and Middlesex made between 1968 and 1981, belongs to R.I.Lorimer on Orkney. There are also beetles collected by him in the Cocks collection at Reading Museum. (MD 11/03) | |
| LOTT, Derek | 28 September 1953 - 19 June 2011 | Born at Hampton, Middlesex, and educated at Hampton Grammar School, Balliol College, Oxford (BA in chemistry 1976), Warwick (Cert Ed. 1977), and. later in life Newcastlle ( Ph.D under Martin Luff 1999). Married in 1977 and taught at Crown Hills School, Leicester until 1983 when, wishing to have a more professional association with Coleoptera, he joined the Leicestershire Museums Service as a curator of collections. At the museum Lott worked on all beetle groups and modernised the collections, introducing IT. His earliest specialisation was with the water-beetles as a member of the Balfour-Browne Club, of which he remained associated for the rest of his life and took part in many collecting trips both in Great Britain and on the Continent. Later, he was instrumental in carrying out surveys in Leicestershire and for the National Trust and the Environment Agency. But the group for which he is best known was the Staphylinidae, and in which he became internationally recognised as an expert. This family was to become his life's work and, with a particular focus on making them more accessible to other collectors, he organised identification workshops with BENHS and wrote many keys. A trip to West Africa in 2003-4 collecting in wetland sites inspired him to write a revision of the genus Acylophorus and to describe seven new species to science. Lott's earlier publications had included Leicestershire Coleopterists: 200 years of Beetle-hunting and the Leicestershire Red Data Book. Many of his numerous later papers on staphylinidae are listed in the bibliographies of the two publications for which he is best known: the Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects: 12/5 The Staphylinidae (rove beetles) of Britain and Ireland Part 5: Scaphidiiinae, Piestinae, Oytelinae, 2009, and 12/7 (with Roy Anderson) The Staphylinidae (rove beetles) of Britain and Ireland Parts 7 & 8: Oxyporinae, Steninae, Euaesthetinae, Pseudopsinae, Paederinae, Staphylinidae, 2011. Tony Drane and Garth Foster, writing Lott's obituary in Col., 20(2), 2011, 1012-103, (from which much of the above is taken), also recorded that apart from Coleoptera he had a great passion for the blues guitar and for wine, and that his family was central to his life. Lott was an Honorary Member of the National Biodiversity Network Trust; served on the Council of the Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust (1993-2010), chairing it from 2011 -2009; Council of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts; a Director of the Aquatic Coleoptera Conservation Trust; member of the Loughborough Naturalists' Society. He was also a member of the editorial board of The Coleopterist (1993-2011). The obituary mentioned above includes a portrait, (MD 1/22) |
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| LOVERIDGE, A. | Coleoptera from German House, Cameroons collected by Loveridge were acquired by the HDO in 1914 (Smith (1986) p.134). (MD 11/03) | ||
| LUCAS, B.R. | Published ‘Carabus cancellatus in Cheshire’ in Naturalist, London, 1900, p.366. (MD 11/03) | ||
| LUCAS, H.R. | Published ‘Copris lunaris at Hertford’ in Ent., 5, 1871, p.445. (MD 11/03) | ||
| LUCAS, William John | 1858 – 5 January 1932 | Well-known entomologist who specialised in Orthoptera, Odonata and Neuroptera and worked the New Forest in particular. Beetles collected by him are in the HDO. (see Smith (1986) p.134) and there are ten MS notebooks titled Natural History Notes in the NHM. He bequeathed books to RESL (Pedersen (2002) p.87. (MD 11/03, 11/09) | |
| LUPTON, Thomas | There is a collection in 17 drawers of Coleoptera and Arachnida ‘worldwide’ (damaged and faded) bearing this name in Kendal Museum. He lived in Morecombe. (MD 11/03) |