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MASSEE, Arthur Morel

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Elder son of George Massee the eminent Kew mycologist. Educated at East Sheen Grammar School, Surrey, and after leaving worked for Bunyards of Maidstone, the horticulturalists. After serving in the First World War went to Imperial College where he studied under Lefroy. In 1920 he joined the small staff at East Malling Research Station where he was to spend the rest of his working life, finally retiring in 1961.

MASON, Philip Brookes

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Born and died at Burton on Trent where both he and his father were doctors. Educated for this profession at Glasgow and University College, London, where he was awarded several prizes and medals before being appointed Demonstrator in Anatomy, a post which he held for three years.. He was also a house surgeon in the hospital of Mr Erichson and Sir Henry Thompson.

MARTYN, Thomas

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The writer and publisher of the first book on British beetles. Martyn has been much confused with Thomas Martyn (1735-1825), the Cambridge botanist, whose interests were equally wide ranging. In sorting out who did what the reader is recommended to look at DNB and Thomas Wilkinson, ‘John Abbot’s London Years’, part IV, ERJV., 98, 1984, p.273. Martyn is recorded to have been born in Coventry, but by 1770 he was established in London as a well-known dealer in natural history specimens. It was he who was responsible for sending John Abbott to America.

MARSHAM, Thomas

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No contemporary biographical account of this important early Coleopterist is known. He was well educated; a founder member of the Linnean Society and its Secretary from 1788-98 and Treasurer from 1898-1816. He was also Secretary to the West India Dock Company for many years and became an officer in the volunteer corps of the Home Guard in 1802. He married a Miss Symes of Ufford, Northants. and had two daughters.

MARSHALL, Thomas Ansell

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Son of Thomas Marshall (see above). Born in Keswick and lived in Edgbaston. Studied at Bridgnorth School and Oxford in both of which he obtained scholarships. Learned Sanskrit and Hebrew. Worked at the British Museum before taking Holy Orders. Became a master at Cheltenham College and afterwards one of the principles of Milford College. Subsequently had various livings in England before moving to Antigua in the West Indies as Bishop’s Chaplain. Lost his wife from fever there and narrowly escaped death himself.

MARSHALL, Thomas

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One of the founder members of the RESL and father of Thomas Ansell Marshall (see below). Published a number of notes on stridulation in insects including ‘Cause of sound in Cychrus rostratus’, Ent. Mag. 1, 1833, pp.213-14. This is presumably the Marshall referred to by Stephens (1828) as ‘my friend’ (p. 62). Stephens also refers to his having a collection (p.179). It may also be the Thomas Marshall who presented 1,051 British insects including 445 Coleoptera to Leicester Museum on 8 October 1849 (Lott, 2009, p.6). (MD 2/04, 11/09)

MARSHALL, Sir Guy Anstruther Knox

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Born in Amritsar, India, where his father was a District Judge and his uncle Chief Engineer and Secretary to the Government of the Punjab. Educated at a prep school in Margate and at Charterhouse School.. In 1891, after failing his examinations for the Indian Civil Service, he sailed to Durban, South Africa. After various exploits, in 1901 he was working as Co-manager in the Salisbury District and Estates Company. It was at this time that he met and subsequently employed C.F.Swynnerton, well known for his tse-tse fly work.

MARSH, J.G.

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Specimens collected by Marsh are incorporated in the P.B.Mason collection at Bolton. He is mentioned in Janson diary at Cambridge eg. July 1869. (MD 2/04)
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