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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| GUICHARD, K.M. | Beetles bearing this name are in the D.G.Hall collection, North Hertfordshire Museum, Baldock. He lived at 54 Middleton Street, London, EC1. (Information from Trevor James). (MD 1/03) | ||
| GUILDING, Lansdown | 1780 – 1832? | A Reverend. Published various notes on tropical insects including Coleoptera in Trans.ESL and Mag.Nat.Hist. between 1822 and 1834. The birth and death dates given above are taken from Hagen (1862). Gilbert (1977), gives 1797-1831. Neither death date seems to fit with NHM purchase of 167 insects from him, mainly Cerambycidae, on 17 July 1839. Gilbert mentions an account of him in N. Papavero, Essays on the History of Neo-Tropical Dipterology, 2 iii, 1975, pp.219-221, which I have not seen. Smith (1986) p.123 records that there are two cabinets in the HDO acquired by Hope Deed of Gift in 1849. (MD 1/03) | |
| GUILLAME, George | Lived in Southampton. Gave Buprestidae to the NHM on 7 November 1839. (MD 1/03) | ||
| GUISE, Sir William Vernon | 19 August 1816 - 24 August 1887 | Eldest son of General Sir John Wright Guise, third baronet. Educated at the Royal Military College Sandhurst and subsequently pursued a career in the military. Lived at Elmore Court, Gloucestershire, and from 1872 was Sheriff of the county. Very little is known of Guise's interest in Coleoptera except that he did collect locally and published a list of Gloucestershire beetles in EWI., 1859 (I am grateful to David Atty for this reference which he found since publishing his Coleoptera of Gloucestershire, 1983). There are short accounts of Guise in F.Boase, Modern English Biography, 1965, p.527, Illustrated London News, 1 October 1887, p.400, and Proc.LSL., 1890, p.92. (MD 1/03) | |
| GULLIVER, G. | Sharon Reid at the Central Science Laboratory (DEFRA), York, informs me that there are specimens collected by Gulliver in the F.Bates collection there (see BATES, F. and WILLIAMS, B.S.) (MD 10/03) | ||
| GULLIVER, George James | d.1931 | Lived at 2 Oaks Villa, Brockenhurst, Hampshire. Gave his insect collection including Coleoptera to the Birmingham Museum in 1914 (Accessions Book no 18. 10 August) Two years earlier he had presented 36 examples of British Coleoptera (4 July 1912. A note dated 1963 indicates that these were then included in the general collection). There is a specimen of Velleius dilatatus (F.) with a label bearing Gulliver's name and 'Brockenhurst.8.viii.94' in the B.S.Williams collection at Liverpool Museum. There is an obituary in Ent., 64, 1931, p.192. (MD 1/03) | |
| GURNEY, J.H. | The Register in the Castle Museum, Norwich records that Gurney gave 200 British Coleoptera to the Museum in 1851 and 6 foreign examples in the following year. He was also involved in the Sparshall gift to the Museum in 1845. Perhaps this is the Joseph Gurney of Grove, Lakenham who subscribed for two copies of Denny (1825). (Daniel Gurney, Hudson Gurney, J.J.Gurney and Miss Gurney, all of different addresses, were also subscribers). (MD 1/03) | ||
| GUTCH, J. (W.G.?) | Gave more than a hundred Coleoptera from Russia 'named by Mr Grey, St. Petersburgh' to the NHM on 6 June 1856. Perhaps this is the same Gutch who had earlier given 13 Coleoptera from Servia (1845/128) and 4 others (1847/47). (MD 1/03) | ||
| GUTHRIE, David | Collector of Diptera and Coleoptera who lived in 1951 in London. FRES from 1952 – before 2002. (MD 3/03) | ||
| GUYON, George | 1825 - 28 February 1878 | Little is know of Guyon who was related to a Hungarian General. He lived at both Richmond and Ventnor, in the Isle of Wight, and published notes on entomology, particularly Coleoptera, for some thirty years from 1845. These included 'Tenacity of life in Curculionidae', Zoo., 3, 1845, 1145; Note on Lamia textr, ibid., 8, 1850, 2961; several notes on aberrant forms; 'Larvae of the glow worm', ibid., 20, 1862, 8180; and 'The Colorado Beetle', Sci. Gossip., 11, 1875, 142. Perhaps his most important article on Coleoptera was 'A List of the British Species of Geodephaga' in Zoo., 8, 1855. I have not seen this last but presume it must be based on Dawson (1854). Dawson certainly referred to Guyon as 'his friend' (p.208). Guyon's British collection was acquired by T.G.BISHOP (see above) and Michael Denton, Ground Beetles in the Yorkshire Museum, 1993, notes that there are specimens there. FRES. There is an obituary in EMM., 14, 1878, pp.263-264. (MD 1/03) |