COLLEY, H.G.

Keith Lewis informs me that at the AES exhibitions in 2002 and 2003 he purchased 4,500+ beetles, including a large number of Carabids, from the collection of the late Mr H.G. Colley, also his three log books. The collection included a specimen of Pterostichus aethiops from Keswick, 22 July 1958 and 7 specimens of Agelastica ulni, (6 from Herts. 2 of which have since been given to the NHM, and one to his friend A.A.Allen) and one from Charmouth, Dorset. Since acquiring the collection he has since received two letters from J.E. Colley, H.G.'s son, which state that his father was born at Camberwell and "was a keen Coleopterist from my early memory (I'm 75). We lived at Sea Mills near Bristol from 1934 to 1935 before moving to Rickmansworth. He retired in 1961 due to ill health. My father also bred a number of butterflies... He was an intelligent and assiduous man... I gave Mr May a cabinet of eight drawers full of specimens (Coleoptera)." The collection includes a number of specimens bearing A.A. Allen's name received by exchange in the 1950s. Keith Lewis’s research has shown that Colley lived at 23 Chorton Road, Seamills, Bristol 1926-27; ‘Colleyland’, Watford, Herts. 1927-28; True Shire Lane, Chorleywood, Herts. 1928-32; 184 Booth Ferry Road, Goole, Yorks. 1932-19? ;14 Hillrise, Rickmansworth, Herts. 1932-61 and at Axminster, Devon 1961-63. (MD 10/03, 12/06)