Manchester entomologist who worked in the Geological Department of the Manchester Museum (Owens College) and collected Coleoptera. J.H.Bailey, writing his obituary in EMM., 40, 1904, pp.18-19, noted that he ‘was one of the few remaining members of the older group of Manchester entomologists being contemporary and associated with Messers Prestcott, Broadhurst, Hall, John Bleakly, Joseph Chappell and John Hardy’. He also notes that Kelsall kept a short MSS diary apparently covering the period 1857-1873, in which he recorded captures of beetles including Cicindela hybrida, Carabus nitens, and Saperda scalaris in the Manchester district. Kelsall died in Blackpool. There is another short obituary in Ent., 57, 1904, p.52. (MD 8/03)
Dates
1825 - 23 November 1903