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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| EVANS, William Frederick | d. c.1870 | Chalmers Hunt (1976) records that Evans sold a collection of British and foreign insects, and his library through Stevens on 22 November 1870 and 26 February 1875. This is presumably the same W.F. Evans who gave four gifts of Coleoptera to the NHM between 1845 and 1847 (1845.132; 1846.113; 1847.45; 1847.85. Other insects were given at different times) from various countries including N. Africa, and who gave his address in 1857 as 'Admiralty'. Pedersen (2002) p.57 records that there are drawings of insects by W.F.Evans in ‘Templeton’s’ scrapbook in the RESL. (MD 10/02, 11/09) | |
| EVANS, William Harry | 1876 – 1956 | Best known for his work on Indian Lepidoptera and later on Hesperiidae in the NHM, but appears to have had an interest in Cdoleoptera too for amongst the collection of manuscript material in the Museum listed by Harvey et al (1996) is a notebook Catalogue of Coleoptera from Grenada, c.1891. (MD 10/02) | |
| EVE, Anthony | Lived at Carshalton Surrey and collected Coleoptera. At one time he was in partnership with Eric Classey but left him to set up a book business of his own. (MD 3/03) | ||
| EVERETT, A. | Collected Coleoptera in Borneo, Sarawak and the Philippines which were acquired by the NHM between 1876 and 1892. (1876.35: 7 specimens purchased from Higgins; 1877.46: 4 specimens from the Philippines purchased from Higgins; 1890.1: 1 Lampyrid given by Everett; 1893.17: 33 specimens purchased from E. Garrard; and 1892.8: 36 specimens purchased from E. Garrard). (MD 10/02) | ||
| EVERETT, C.M. | He is listed by James,T.J. (2018) as providing a special contribution (MD 1/22) |
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| EVERSHAM, Brian C. | Published with M. Telfer, 'Bembidion octomaculatum (Goeze)(Carabidae) in Norfolk, a second 20th century locality', in Col., (3(1), 1994, 21. (MD 1/22) |
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| EWING, Arthur | 14 August 1935 – 21 November 2006 | Born in Edinburgh but spent his early childhood in India before returning to attend George Watson’s College. After a period of National Service he went to Edinburgh University where he studied zoology gaining a Ph.D in 1963. He was a Fulbright Scholar in 1964 and remained at the University as a lecturer until taking semi-retirement to run a small farm at Wester Duncanstone in North Aberdeenshire in 1990. His obituary in Latissimus, 22, February 2007, p.18, from which this account is taken, states that he was a man of many interests from mountaineering to pottery and the cultivation of orchids. His interest in entomology involved all insects including beetles and he was an active member of the Balfour-Browne Club. Ewing published over forty papers mainly on behaviour genetics, neurophysiology, mechanisms of flight and song, and one book Arthropod Bioacoustics: Neurobiology and Behaviour. His collection remained with his wife after his death but is eventually destined for the RSM. (MD 11/09) | |
| EWING, S. | A Reverend. He gave various insects to the NHM including 51 beetles from Van Dieman's Land in 1846 (1846.81). (MD 10/02) | ||
| FAHY, E. | Ryan,J.G. et. al.,(1984) record that Fahy published ‘A short account of the Elminthidae in Ireland with a key to the larvae’ and ‘Observations on the growth and distribution of certain lotic [sic] Coleoptera in Ireland’ in INJ., 17(8), 1972, pp.264-267 and 269-272. (MD 12/02) | ||
| FAIRLEY, J.S. | Ryan,J.G. et al. (1984) record three articles by Fairley in the INJ between 1971 and 1975 on bird food and pellets which mention Coleoptera. He also published a note on Leptinus testaceus Mull., ibid., 14, 1963, pp.165-167. (MD 12/02) |