Lived at Helsby and Prestatyn before moving to Llandudno a few days before his death. He was Managing Director of the Longford Wire Company. Dutton was particularly interested in the entomology of Lancashire and Cheshire, especially Delamere Forest. His capture of 12 specimens of Dryops (Parnus) nitidulus (Heer) on the sand hills at Birkdale, Southport, in July 1890 which he published in EMM., 39, 1903, p.152, was the first record of that species in this country. He also published ‘Lathrobium rufipenne Gyll. and other Coleoptera at Delamere Forest’, ibid., 46, 1910, pp.3435. He is mentioned by W.E.Sharp, The Coleoptera of Lancashire and Cheshire (1908) p.15. A collection of Coleoptera made by Dutton mainly in N. Wales and Cheshire between 1909-26, was given to Warrington Museum in 1939 (9.39). It is kept separate and includes 2 drawers of Lepidoptera. Dutton also gave a number of Coleoptera to the NHM between 1898 and 1910 (98.44, 2 specimens of Coccinella heiroglyphica; 1907.75, 3 specimens from Stroniness, Orkney Isles; and 1910.107, 2 specimens of Lathrobium rufipenne from Delamere Forest), and his wife presented four specimens of Lathridium nigripenne after his death (1938.192). Letters to W.E.Sharp are preserved in the Sharp volumes at Liverpool Museum, eg. 2, 174. Dutton was a member of the Warrington Field Club. There are obituaries in Arb.morph.taxon.Ent.Berl., 5, 1938, p.186 (three lines only) and EMM., 74, 1938, pp.66-67. (MD 9/02)
Dates
1859 - 15 December 1937