Naturalist who lived all his life in Carlisle and had a special interest in Coleoptera, particularly ladybirds. Collected from 1904 mainly in Cumberland. He is recorded to have had some sort of breakdown in 1934 but was recovering in 1936. His first publication on beetles appears to have been ‘Coccinella 11 punctata ab. Lemani’ in ERJV., 35, 1923, p.57. This was followed by ‘The Two Spot Ladybird’ (Discovery, 1926, pp.407-09); ‘A preliminary account of the life history of Coccinella 11-punctata’ (Trans.ESL., 75, 1927, pp.47-52); ‘Coccinellid hybrids: A provoked communication’ (ERJV., 40, 1928, pp.176-177); ‘A pale Anatis ocellata’ (ibid., 41, 1929, pp.183-84); ‘A Coccinellid parasite’ (Naturalist, 1932, pp.221-22); ‘The Cumberland Chrysomelidae’ (ERJV., 50, 1938, pp.63-67) and two notes on the ‘Coleoptera of Easton’ (ibid., 51,1939, pp.122-127 and 52, 1940, p.11). A collection of Coleoptera made by Marriner, in 11 drawers, is in the Hancock Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. David Sheppard, who amalgamated some of Marriner’s insects when working in the Museum, tells me that this was given in 1942, when it occupied 14 store boxes, (in which the specimens were recorded to be ‘mouldy’) and a separate box given by Mrs Little in 1948 (in which many of the specimens were broken and only some were kept). The first included the type of Coccinella 10-punctata ab. Inornata. (I am grateful to David Sheppard for this information).FRESL from 17 March 1920. (MD 2/04)
Dates
1890? – 1942?