Born in Birmingham and educated at Keble College, Oxford before becoming a priest. Jonathan Cooter tells me that ‘he was primarily a Lepidopterist, but built up representative collections of larger Coleoptera and Diptera, including longish series of several uncommon species. Also a good botanist, his herbarium being donated to Birmingham University (or Museum). His insect collection was purchased by Hereford City Museum in 1988 his daughter retaining a selection of the Lepidoptera, and his widow giving me permission to retain a selection of the insects for my own use. Although not primarily a Coleopterist, he was well known to contemporary specialists – for example he and his wife stayed at Granish with Harwood on occasions. (MD 11/04)
Dates
1906 - c.1980