Famous Botanist and Lepidopterist who also collected Coleoptera although little seems to be known about his activities in this respect. There is a mention in Stephens (1828) p.13, with regard to a specimen of Polistichus fasciolatus which he records as 'in the collection of my friend A.H.Haworth ... taken by Rev. S. Bale'. Marsham (1802) also mentions him as a friend (p.xxiii). The Strepsipteron Stylops haworthii was named after him by Stephens and there is an interesting account of the sale of the unique specimen, which Haworth retained in his cabinet, in Chalmers-Hunt (1976) p.6.Smith (1986) includes two interesting refences to Haworth's beetle collections. She records(p.37) that in June 1823 Westwood noted in his diary calling on Haworth 'when he showed me his Coleoptera and prm'd to give me some', and that in October of the same year WEestwood had completed a ms catalogue of Haworth's Coleoptera(presumably that now in the HDO). She also notes (p.124) that the Departmental Report of 1910 also mentions British Staphylinidae bearing Haworth labels',. Chalmers-Hunt also refers to the sale of Haworth's other collections which included some 40,000 insects of all orders half of which were Lepidoptera. The sale took place over two weeks between 23 June and 4 July, 1834 at Stevens' rooms and included 2306 lots. Many exotic insects were included as is confirmed by a note in Eric Gowing-Scopes copy of the sale catalogue 'The results of the sale much disappointed the [Haworth] family as I have heard at the time Exotic Insects were not bought and so fetched but little'. Haworth's superb library was also sold at auction in the same year. Haworth was involved in the foundation of the first Entomological Society and there is an interesting 'Review of the Rise and Progress of ...Entomology in Great Britain' by him in the Transactions, 1807. There is an account in DNB and Gilbert (1977) lists six other references. (MD 3/03)
Dates
1767 - 24 August 1833