Director of Doncaster Museum between 1953 and 1967. Specialist in the Cerambycidae of which he built up an extensive worldwide collection (several hundred thousand specimens) at Doncaster with no regional bias through purchase, exchange and gift. The collection, which is maintained separately, includes numerous types and has been extensively referred to in the literature, usually as the Gilmour collection. There are specimens collected by Gilmour in the Kauffmann collection at Manchester. FRES. (MD 1/03)