PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE, Sir Arthur W.

Educationalist who was the second son of Octavius Pickard-Cambridge the well known arachnologist and Rectoir of Bloxworth, Dorset. A collection of insects made by him and his father is in the HDO. Smith (1986), p.141 describes it as including a wide variety of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. A brief obituary by N.D.Riley in Proc.RESL, (C) 17, 1953, p.73 states that his interest in entomology was ‘life long’. FRES from 1917. (MD 9/04)