One of the founding members of the Amateur Entomologists Society. Published a number of notes on Coleoptera, particularly Elateridae and their larvae, in the EMM. during the period 1945 - 1947. He was attached for most of this time to the Department of Agriculture at the University of Leeds. He susequently joined the National Agricultural Advisory Service at Cambridge. At one time he lived at 'Elater', 27 Spilsby Road, Boston, Lincolnshire. There are specimens of Elateridae collected by him in the general collection at Doncaster Museum and with K.C.Lewis. Member BENHS from 1936 and Life Member in 1978. Also member of the AES where his interests were listed in 1945 as General entomology, Lepidoptera, Migration, Ecology, Economic Entomoloy, and Coleoptera especially Elateridae. (MD 3/02)