Born at Chester, the son of Guy Cecil Bartindale (see above) and lived in Macclesfield opposite the school where his father taught. Went up to Balliol College Oxford (his father’s old College) where he read chemistry graduating with a BA in 1939. After a spell of work, and at Leeds University as a research chemist, he returned to Oxford for a D. Phil. awarded in 1949. Moved to Manchester University in 1948 as Assistant Lecturer, then Lecturer, in Physical Chemistry at the College of Technology (UMIST) where he remained until retirement in 1982. He married Mary Elizabeth Broomhead of Macclesfield in 1959.
In his obituary of Bartindale in Ent.mon.Mag., 139, 2003, 187-189, Colin Johnson states that he ‘started collecting beetles with great enthusiasm at the age of 15 and much of his early collecting around Macclesfield was done with the aid of a bicycle... public transport, especially the railways [took him] to Wales and South West England, although Scotland and abroad seem not to have been visited.’ He continued collecting whilst at Oxford and joined the Manchester Entomological Society in October 1934 where he was a regular exhibitor at meetings and gave papers to the Society some of which were published. He also met and exchanged specimens with George Kloet and Ted Aubrook. In this respect his interest pre-dated that of his father who did not join until 1936.'
Another acquaintance of Bartindale’s was Johnson himself. They first met at the Society meetings in the late 1950s and, when Johnson joined the Manchester Museum in 1961 ‘He often came in to talk about beetles and, as the years went by, I was able to help him myself increasingly with identifications of the more difficult groups... He was an outstanding field collector, who had an incredible knowledge of British beetles... aided by a meticulously maintained card index...’
Bartindale published 5 articles, 3 with his father as the senior author, and 2 by himself: 'Feronia angustata (Duft) in Lancashire and Cheshire' in Ent.mon.Mag., 86, 1950, 315, and ‘On occurrences of Acrulia inflata Gyll. in the North Midlands’, ibid., 98, 1962, 3. Duff (1993), 5, records that Bartindale 'visited Somerset with his father... in 1935. According to a letter from G.C. Bartindale to W.A. Wilson dated 14 January 1951, held in the Wilson archives at Taunton County Museum, the son was responsible for all of their identifications.'
Johnson (2004), 6-7, records that his collection amounting to 20,000 specimens in 29 storeboxes and including that of his father, together with extensive notebooks, card indices of records and correspondence, was acquired by Manchester Museum in 2002. The insects were affected by corroded pins, dust and mould before accession and included a paratype of Adota immigrans (Easton). In his obituary Johnson notes that the collection includes much exchanged material, especially from friends and collectors during his earlier days, including J.J. Walker. Specimens are mostly pre-war, dating back to 1932, but there are a few collected during the early 1980s at Cheadle Hulme and in North Wales. A number of boxes of duplicates and other material are also present.'
I have also seen specimens collected by Bartindale in 1934 in the Doncaster Museum, and Pedersen (2002), 84, lists a letter to D.J. Jackson in the RES. The obituary mentioned above includes a full bibliography and portrait. (MD 9/01, 10/03, 11/09)