Lived for most of his life in Bowdon, Cheshire, where he is buried. He was primarily a Lepidopterist but did take up Coleoptera in the last years of his life and according to Edward Newman had made a very large collection before his death (Ent., 6, 1872, p.272). Sharp (1908) notes that much of his collecting was done in company with James Sidebotham who also lived at Bowdon. The pair not only collected in this country but also on the Continent to which, Sidebotham's obituaries state, he travelled frequently. Edleston and Sidebotham introduced some five species of continental weevils as new to the British list between June 1864 and May 1865. With the single exception of one record of Polydrusus prasinus (Olivier), by Ellis from Liverpool some twenty years later, none of these species has been taken since (I am grateful to Mike Morris for pointing this out to me). Coleoptera collected by Edleston are in the Mason Collection at Bolton. According to a letter in the W.E.Sharp correspondence at Liverpool the Edleston specimens are distinquished by their large scarlet labels. Smith (1986) p.75 records that correspondence with J.C.Dale is in the HDO. Apart from the notice in EMM. referred to above there are others in EMM., 9, 1872, p.167; Petites Nouv.Ent., 4, 1872, p.265 and J.RESL., 1872, p.1. (MD 10/02)
Dates
1819 - 31 October 1872