CRAWFORD, William Monod

For much of his life Crawford was interested primarily in the Lepidoptera, but after his retirement from the Indian Civil Service in 1919 he settled in Belfast and became interested in beetles. He published more than fifty new county records for Ireland in the EMM between 1932 and 1937, and eighteen other articles in the INJ and Proc. Belfast Nat.Field Club (listed in Ryan, O'Conner and Beirne (1984) pp.56-58). He interested himself in water beetles in particular and was one of the editors of the IN. FRES from 1922. There is a brief obituary notice in Proc.RESL., C, 1942, p.40, and a further notice in the INJ, 7, 1941, pp.336-37. (MD 4/02)