Gardener and bailiff who lived in Leicester Frith and published three records of beetles from the area in Naturalist’s Journal Magazine, 4, 1895, pp. 43, 141, 251-252. Lott (2009) p. 21 records that Frederick Bates reported in 1896 receiving a list of beetles out of sphagnum at Bradgate Park from Woolley, and that he presented a paper on a review of the British Carabidae with special reference to Leicester species to the members of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society on 10 December 1897. Of his collection Lott states: ‘A long series of specimens of many different species with no locality labels stands in the [S.O.]Taylor collection labelled in Taylor’s handwriting with the number 1303. This number corresponds to an entry in Taylor’s collection notebook dated 30 March 1942 explaining that they are from the J.H.Woolley collection. I assume that these are the remnants of the Woolley collection’. (MD 11/09)
Dates
b. c.1856-58