Studied zoology at Durham University and carried out research on fleas at Oxford. Lived in Barrowden in Rutland and had a general interest in natural history. He died by suicide. Lott (2009), 28, records that he collected around 200 beetles in Leicestershire in the 1940s and 50s and that his collection is now in the Leicester Museum (Acc. no. Z.25.1983). (MD 11/09)
Dates
10 January 1931 – 29 November 1957