Born at Chelmsford, Essex and received little orthodox education. His father died when he was ten and he left school to join a firm of timber merchants, G.F.Neame and Co (later Price & Pierce (Woodpulp) Ltd.) where he remained until his retirement in 1958. Served in France for a short time during the First World War before being invalided out in 1915 and transferred to the Army Service Corps. Subsequently rose to the rank of Captain. Following his marriage in 1919 he moved for two years to Finland as his firm’s representative.

There are beetles donated by Kempwelch in the Marquand collection in Guernsey Museum (most dating from c.1870-1910). He is recorded to have lived in Bournemouth (Fenscore). (MD 10/03)

Manchester entomologist who worked in the Geological Department of the Manchester Museum (Owens College) and collected Coleoptera. J.H.Bailey, writing his obituary in EMM., 40, 1904, pp.18-19, noted that he ‘was one of the few remaining members of the older group of Manchester entomologists being contemporary and associated with Messers Prestcott, Broadhurst, Hall, John Bleakly, Joseph Chappell and John Hardy’.

Published ‘Plaque of beetles in Galway in 1688’ in IN., 4, 1895, pp.190-91. (MD 8/03)

Of Moidart Cottage, Currie, Scotland. Gave 217 beetles from Australia and 14 from Egypt to the RSM in 1885 (1885-23). (MD 8/03)

A doctor. Represented in a large collection of beetles given to Glasgow Museum in 1985. Exotic material mainly from E. Africa and Nigeria collected in the 1930s. (MD 8/03)

Born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire but spent much of his adult life as a missionary in British Columbia before returning to England to live at Tunbridge Wells, where he died. Published four articles on beetles in British Columbia and the Queen Charlotte Islands in Canadian Entomologist between 1891 and 1898. There are ten beetles in the collection of the RHS which bear the initials JHK which may be Keen. (Information from Andy Salisbury). There is an obituary in Coleopterists’ Bulletin, 11, 1957, pp.62-64 (by H. Melville Hatch) which I have not seen. (MD 8/03)

A brief obituary in the EMM., 11, 1874, p.70 records that Keeley ‘was known to many entomologists as a quiet and unassuming collector of British Coleoptera, of which he had a good general knowledge. We believe he was originally in the service of a well-known firm of natural history lithographers, which possibly brought out his taste for entomological pursuits, and for many years past he was an employee of a large East Indian Agency, and being transferred to the Southampton branch, he took up residence in that town.