Born at Knaresborough, Yorkshire. Studied Forestry at Oxford and spent a year working under Lefroy. Posted as Forest Officer, later Forest Entomologist and Conservator of Forests, Burma. In 1942 he controlled the civil evacuation of Burma via the Upper Chindwin and Manipur, and was then appointed Chief Conser- vator of Forests, Burma, a post he held until 1946. On retirement he joined the staff of the Commonwealth Institute of Entomology and specialised in timber beetles, particularly the Scolytidae. He died while working in the NHM. His few publications included ‘Ips (Tomicus) erosus in Britain', Ent.mon.Mag., 57, 1921, 253-4. There is an obituary notice in Proc.R.Ent.Soc.,(C), 1952-53, 71. (MD 7.01)
Dates
June 1897 - 27 March 1952