Had an extensive knowledge of the Lepidoptera and took up Coleoptera in his later years, eventually amassing fine representative collection of both these orders. He was particularly associated with the SLENHS which he joined in 1931 and on the Council of which he served from 1941. S. Wakely, in an obituary in Proc.Trans.S.Lond.ent.nsat.Hist.Soc., 1942, 43, noticed that he was a regular exhibitor at meetings and that the field trips he led to South Benfleet, where his parents lived, were especially memorable occasions’. It was while leading a field meeting at Oxshott that he suffered a heart attack and died, L.G.Payne recording: ‘he just lay down and went to sleep in the woods amongst the creatures he loved so well’. (MD 7.01)
Dates
d. 20 July 1941