A Reverend. Published various notes on tropical insects including Coleoptera in Trans.ESL and Mag.Nat.Hist. between 1822 and 1834. The birth and death dates given above are taken from Hagen (1862). Gilbert (1977), gives 1797-1831. Neither death date seems to fit with NHM purchase of 167 insects from him, mainly Cerambycidae, on 17 July 1839. Gilbert mentions an account of him in N. Papavero, Essays on the History of Neo-Tropical Dipterology, 2 iii, 1975, pp.219-221, which I have not seen. Smith (1986) p.123 records that there are two cabinets in the HDO acquired by Hope Deed of Gift in 1849. (MD 1/03)
Dates
1780 – 1832?