Lived at Grove Park in Warwickshire. Made his career in the army and saw active service in the Crimea and India. His obituary in EMM., 37, 1901, p.49, states that he ‘had a strong taste for entomology and formed a collection of Cicindelidae... outside this speciality his captures were given to friends’. Dormer was of a retiring disposition and was known to only a few, but these friends did include H.W.Bates who received specimens from him. Dormer also presented specimens to the NHM in 1892 (92.78. 33 specimens from India, Ceylon and Japan) and 1893 (93.72. 12 specimens from India). Chalmers-Hunt (1976), p.137, records that Dormer's collection of Cicindelidae was sold by Stevens on 16 July 1901. FES from 1886 (he is recorded to have attended meeetings 'occasionally'; FZS from 1882. (MD 6/02)
Dates
22 May 1830 - 22 December 1900