Born in Manchester, the youngest son of James Stott of Basford Hall, Stoke on Trent. Began his business career there but transferred to London as Continental traffic manager of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company and the Goole Steamship Company. Lived in Reigate until his retirement in 1927. Stott was interested in entomology from boyhood, first as Lepidopterist and then as a Coleopterist. Member of the North Staffordshire Field Club and contributed records to Sharp (1908) who notices that he lived at Swinton, near Manchester and was formerly resident at Bolton le Moors. He published a number of notes in EMM, his best known discovery being of Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus at Chartley Moss after a lapse of nearly sixty years. Another interesting note concerned the occurrence of the New Zealand Lathriidid Lithostygnus serripennis at his home in Reigate in 1928, at that time known only from the type in the NHM. He moved back north in later life (Armitage in Staffordshire) Stott’s collection amounting to 21,000 specimens is now in the City Museum, Stoke-on-Trent. Other specimens collected by him are at Warrington (Hancock and Pettit (1981); the B.S.Williams collection at Liverpool includes insects labelled CES (eg. Callidium violaceum, Box Hill, June 1926) which is presumably Stott; there are specimens collected by him in the D.G.Hall collection at the North Hertfordshire Museum (Information from Trevor James) and in Colin Johnson’s weevil collection at Manchester. FESL from 1915. There is an obituary in EMM., 71, 1935, pp.212-13, and I have a reference to him in Trans.N.Staffs.Field Club, 70, 1935-36, which I have not seen. (MD 11/04)
Dates
18 September 1868 - 28 May 1935