Born at Nusserabad, India, the son of Major General R.C.Wroughton. Educated at Bedford School and King’s College, London. Trained in the L’Ecole Forestiere, Nancy, and took up a post in the Indian Forestry Service on 10 December 1871 as Assistant Conservator of Forests in the Bombay Presidency. He eventually became Inspector General of Forests for India before retiring in 1904. Wroughton took a particular interest in Ants but also collected Coleoptera. Paussidae found by him near Bombay are mentioned by Fowler (1912), and Paussus wroughtoni Wasm. was named after him. FESL 1891-1907. (MD 12/04)
Dates
15 August 1849 – 15 May 1921