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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUTTON, James Fairclough | 1859 - 15 December 1937 | Lived at Helsby and Prestatyn before moving to Llandudno a few days before his death. He was Managing Director of the Longford Wire Company. Dutton was particularly interested in the entomology of Lancashire and Cheshire, especially Delamere Forest. His capture of 12 specimens of Dryops (Parnus) nitidulus (Heer) on the sand hills at Birkdale, Southport, in July 1890 which he published in EMM., 39, 1903, p.152, was the first record of that species in this country. He also published ‘Lathrobium rufipenne Gyll. and other Coleoptera at Delamere Forest’, ibid., 46, 1910, pp.3435. He is mentioned by W.E.Sharp, The Coleoptera of Lancashire and Cheshire (1908) p.15. A collection of Coleoptera made by Dutton mainly in N. Wales and Cheshire between 1909-26, was given to Warrington Museum in 1939 (9.39). It is kept separate and includes 2 drawers of Lepidoptera. Dutton also gave a number of Coleoptera to the NHM between 1898 and 1910 (98.44, 2 specimens of Coccinella heiroglyphica; 1907.75, 3 specimens from Stroniness, Orkney Isles; and 1910.107, 2 specimens of Lathrobium rufipenne from Delamere Forest), and his wife presented four specimens of Lathridium nigripenne after his death (1938.192). Letters to W.E.Sharp are preserved in the Sharp volumes at Liverpool Museum, eg. 2, 174. Dutton was a member of the Warrington Field Club. There are obituaries in Arb.morph.taxon.Ent.Berl., 5, 1938, p.186 (three lines only) and EMM., 74, 1938, pp.66-67. (MD 9/02) | |
| DYKE, F.M. | Gave 73 Coleoptera which he had collected in the Congo to the NHM in 1923 (1923.290). (MD 9/02) | ||
| DYKES, Joseph | Published ‘A weevil which eats fruit trees’ in J.C.Loudon's Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement, 6, 1830, p.501. (MD 9/02) | ||
| DYOTT, R.A. | A Major. Gave 43 large store boxes of foreign insects including Coleoptera to Birmingham on 30 September 1924 (listed in Natural History Department Accessions Book 18). His address is recorded as Freeford, Lichfield. (MD 9/02) | ||
| DYSON | Sold several hundred Coleoptera from Venezuela, Australia, etc. to the NHM between 1844 and 1848 (44.1: 61 specimens; 45.123, 186 specimens through Mr Cuming; 46.75, 105 specimens; 47.1, 100 specimens; 47.2, 8 specimens; 47.26, 7 specimens; 47.52, 131 specimens; 48.14, 14 specimens from Australia. (MD 9/02) | ||
| DYSON PERRINS | See PERRINS. | ||
| EADY, R.D. | Made many gifts of insects to the NHM including two of 93 Coleoptera each, collected in Palestine, the first with L. Rawsthorn (1945.2 and 1946.32). (MD 10/02) | ||
| EAGLES, T.R. | d. 1971 | General naturalist, botanist and entomologist with particular interests in Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. James (1973) records the important contribution which Eagles made to the BENHS which he joined in 1927 and of which he became an Honorary Member in 1959. His involvement with the Society included acting as Editor 1945-1955, and as Treasurer 1936-1944. It was to this Society that Eagles's collections of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera, and his library, were given by his family after his death. K.FC.Lewis tells me that there Eagles specimens in his collection.Pederson (2002) p,126 records that there is correspondence with C.J.Wainwright in the RESL. He lived at 32 Abbey Road, Enfield. (MD 10/02, 12/06) | |
| EAMES, J. Henry | Collected 7 Coleoptera in the Gold Coast which he presented to the NHM in 1893 (1893.43). (MD 10/02) | ||
| EARLAND, A. | Published notes on the beetle mite Tegeocranus latus in Trans. Herts. nat. Hist. Soc., 15, 1913, pp.64-65. (MD 10/02) |