Well-known Scarborough Micro-Lepidopterist who studied Coleoptera in later life. He published 8 notes in EMM starting with ‘Ant’s nests beetles at Scarborough’ 2, 1865,14 and finishing with ‘Helophorus tuberculatus in Yorks’ 11, 1875, 235. He is mentioned in the Gorham diary at Birmingham and the Janson diary at Cambridge eg. February 1870. Rye, Ent.Ann., 1869, 26, records that Wilkinson sent him beetles for naming. His main collection of beetles is in the Mason collection at Bolton (the specimens are marked in purple) and Simms (1968) records material in the W.C. Hey collection at York. There is an obituary in EMM, 12, 1876, 279. (MD 12/04, 12/21)
Dates
c.1818 – 13 April 1876