Primarily a Lepidopterist, but was also interested in Coleoptera. Day (1909), 1, p.127 mentions him as a worker on the county fauna, and he published notes on Cumberland beetles in the EMM., eg. ‘Saperda scalaris in Cumberland’ (13, 1902, p.287).His collection is in the Tullie House Museum, Carlisle given by his sister-in-law Mrs St John Hankin (28-1935). At the time of presentation it consisted of 120 drawers of Lepidoptera and 40 drawers of beetles, which, together with some other material of other families amounted, to 100,000 specimens. Gilbert (1977) lists 5 obituaries of which that in N.West Nat., 10, pp.145-148 (which I have not seen) is the most comprehensive, and Hancock and Pettit (1981) refer to a note by Markham in Museums Journal, 39, 1948, p.75. (MD 11/04)
Dates
1864 – 1934