Well known expert on Chelsea porcelain and compiler of information about Country Houses. Bryant was an Assistant at the IIE and travelled extensively to most parts of the world amassing a large collection of Coleoptera (c.50,000 specimens) which was presented to the NHM. In 1908 he visited Australia where his travels were recorded by A.M. Lea, who described some of the beetles he collected. Bryant published 'New Species of Pselaphidae' in Ent.mon.Mag., 51, 1915, 297-302, and 'Notes on Synonymy in the Phytophaga' in Ann.Mag.Nat.Hist., 12, 1923, 130-147. There are specimens in Doncaster Museum's general collection collected by B.A.Cooper which were determined by Bryant.
Two notebooks are in the NHM one containing details of Coleoptera caught in Borneo 1913-1914 and the other in Sarawak, 1913-1919.
Is this the 'Bryant' perhaps whose collection of British Coleoptera was sold at Stevens's rooms on 12 October 1920?
There is an obituary in the Times 24 March 1965. (MD 12/01)