Biographical dictionary
The Biographical Dictionary of British Coleopterists was compiled by the late Michael Darby. The Dictionary can be accessed below, and see also the additional information provide by Michael:
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| Name | Dates | Biography | |
|---|---|---|---|
| COOPER, M. | Brother of S.H.Cooper (see below) and apparently shared his interests in Diptera and Coleoptera. Recorded as taking Stilbus oblongus (Erichs.) at Reigate, Surrey in May 1960, in EMM., 110, 1974, p.84. (MD 3/02) | ||
| COOPER, Michael Clifford | b. 25 September 1937 | Lived at Enfield, Middlesex and collected Coleoptera FRES from before 1962 - 2002 (MD 3/03) | |
| COOPER, S.H. | Brother of M. Cooper (see above). Published 'New records of Diptera and Coleoptera from Surrey, Berkshire and Herefordshire' in EMM., 110, 1974, p.84. Lived at Brookside, Llanwarre, Herefordshire. (MD 3/02) | ||
| COOPER, W.F. | Published 'The Water Beetles' in Recreation Science, 3, 1862, pp.83-87. (MD 3/02) | ||
| COPE, J.E. | Main contributor to the C.G.Hall collection at Oldham Museum. Specimens date from 1874-1943 and are mainly from Lancs. Cheshire, Oxon. and Derbys. They include Copris lunaris and Labistamis bidentata and are not housed in matchboxes as has been suggested. (Information from Simon Hayhow). Hancock & Pettitt (1981) record that Cope presented a collection of British (mainly north-west) and 'North America' beetles to Manchester Museum in 1957. (MD 4/02) | ||
| COPLAND, M.J.W. | Published (with P.E.King) 'The occurrence of Metoecus paradoxus L. in Glamorgan' in EMM., 105, 1969, p.114. (MD 4/02) | ||
| CORBET, Philip | Presented 6,000 insects from Uganda, including Coleoptera, to the NHM in 1956. (MD 4/02) | ||
| CORBETT, G.Q. | Arrow (1917) mentions that Corbett caught Rutelinae in Burma. This is presumably the same Corbett that Fowler (1912) mentions collected beetles at Tharawaddy and Pegu. (MD 4/02) | ||
| CORBETT, H. Vincent | d.1918 | Son of Herbert Henry Corbett (QV). Recorded in EMM., 57, 1921, p.67 to have become 'a very promising Coleopterist and Hemipterist' at the time of his death as a Captain in the First World War. (MD 4/02) | |
| CORBETT, Herbert Henry | 1856 - 5 January 1921 | Born at Besses o'th'Barn, Lancashire, the son of an architect. His father was keen that he should follow the same career but he took up medicine instead, studying at Owen's College, Manchester. After graduating he worked for different periods in Cheadle, Liverpool, and Bolton before moving to Doncaster in 1888/9. Corbett had considerable ability and knowledge in a wide range of fields from music to geology, and is also recorded to have had the power of simultaneous, independent ambidexterity. It is not surprising, therefore, that he quickly made an impact on the literary and scientific life of the town, re-envigorating the local Natural History and Antiquarian Society, of which he and his wife Jesse, the daughter of the entomologist S.J.Capper, were active members, and putting in hand the establishment of the local Museum, of which he became first Curator. Corbett's initial entomological interest appears to have been the Lepidoptera on which he published his first article in 1876. His interest in beetles was apparently aided by Edwin Bayford who wrote in his obituary of Corbett in the Naturalist: 'Soon after he came to Doncaster, a note of mine, which appeared in the Naturalist caused him to seek my acquaintance, and soon he began to study the Coleoptera. In this order he did excellent work, as a cursory glance at the list of Yorkshire species in the Victoria County History will show' (1921, pp.145-147). Many of his captures, which included Diptera and Hymenoptera as well as Lepidoptera and Coleoptera, are recorded in the pages of this magazine. Corbett's collection of Coleoptera, which may amount to some 500-700 specimens, is housed in the Doncaster Museum where it has been amalgamated into the general collection. Apart from the obituary already mentioned, there are others in Ent.News., 32, 1921, p.192; EMM., 57, 1921, pp.66-67; Proc.LSL., 1920-21, pp.46-47; and Proc.ESL., 1921, p.cxxix. (MD 4/02) |