Born in Leicestershire to a family that owned an ironmonger’s business. Burnard was his mother’s family name. Lott (2009) p. 21 records that he appears to have collected his first beetle in 1890 but that a MS Report on C.B.Headly and his association with Leicester Museum by R.Brind (1980) suggests that he did not get into his stride until 1893. ‘He accompanied Frederick Bates to Bradgate Park, who reported that ‘Mr Headley joined me for several weeks and collected most assiduously’. He also gave several joint presentations with Bouskell to the entomology section of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society, the first being on ‘The Onion grub’ on 27 February 1894... He continued attending the New Forest excursions until 1899 and remained an intermittent member [of the entomology section] up until 1910. He collected his last beetle in 1906...’ Headly’s collection of 6,000 specimens of 1,300 species was donated to the Leicester Museum (Acc. No. Z193.1909) but Lott reports that only just over one quarter can now be identified (2009): ‘It is possible that some of the remainder are represented by unlabelled material, but this is unlikely because of the differences in mounting style. They are well labelled with locality data.’ Lott also reports that little documentation is associated with the collection beyond a copy of Fowler annotated with Leicestershire records. (MD 11/09)
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b.1868