GUISE, Sir William Vernon

Eldest son of General Sir John Wright Guise, third baronet. Educated at the Royal Military College Sandhurst and subsequently pursued a career in the military. Lived at Elmore Court, Gloucestershire, and from 1872 was Sheriff of the county. Very little is known of Guise's interest in Coleoptera except that he did collect locally and published a list of Gloucestershire beetles in EWI., 1859 (I am grateful to David Atty for this reference which he found since publishing his Coleoptera of Gloucestershire, 1983). There are short accounts of Guise in F.Boase, Modern English Biography, 1965, p.527, Illustrated London News, 1 October 1887, p.400, and Proc.LSL., 1890, p.92. (MD 1/03)