Father and son. Lived at 16 Lostock Avenue, Poynton, Cheshire and before that at 156 Cumberland Street, Macclesfield, Cheshire. They are best known for their joint article 'The Coleoptera of the Macclesfield District' in EMM, 84, 1948, 130-138. In this they recorded that they had started collecting beetles in the neighbourhood of Macclesfield in about 1932 and by 1948 had taken over 950 species. Most of their determinations were made by H. Britten (but see below). A supplement to the list was published in Ent.mon.Mag., 86, 1950, 121-3, and in the same volume G.W.R. published 'Feronia angustata (Duft) in Lancashire and Cheshire’ (315). G.W.R. Bartindale is recorded as D. Phil.
I have seen specimens collected by G.W.R. Bartindale in 1934 in the Doncaster Museum. Duff (1993), 5, records that Bartindale visited coastal west Somerset in August-September 1935 and again in May 1946. He sent one list to Taunton Museum (which I have not traced) and in January 1951 a different list to W.A. Wilson, held in the Wilson archives at Taunton. According to a letter from G.C. Bartindale to W.A. Wilson, in this archive, the son was responsible for all their identifications. Followed on 22 March by a page of amendments’. Johnson (2004), 6, records that Bartindale’s collection amounting to c. 1,000 specimens was acquired by Manchester Museum in 2002 incorporated into that of his son Guy William (see below). (MD 9/01,10/03, 11/09)