Nephew of Thomas Vernon Wollaston. Hutton became a well-known New Zealand natural historian after emigrating there shortly after 1866 when he retired from the army. He was at one time Professor of Zoology at Christchurch. Among the many important works he carried out on the islands was the publication of the Index Faunae Novae Zelandiae, 1904, which listed all the insects known at that time. He is included here because he took the weevil Pentarthrum huttoni in Devonshire which Wollaston named after him. Gilbert (1977) lists six obituaries and other notices. (MD 5/03)

This is the well-known Dr Hunter, Court Physician to Queen Charlotte, consort of George III, and founder of the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow. Hunter originally intended his collections (most of which related to his work as a surgeon and not to entomology which formed only a small part) to form part of a School of Anatomy and Medicine in London but chose Glasgow University when this proposal failed to find support with the Government. Fabricius’s involvement came about during one of his various journeys around Europe pursuing entomological matters.

Worked on stored product Coleoptera when he lived at Feltham in Middlesex. FRES 1951. (MD 5/03)

The following is extracted from a detailed obituary by Colin Johnson and Peter Skidmore in EMM., 141, 2005, pp.125-129 which also includes a photograph (taken in Portugal in 1992) and bibliography. Born in Salford, the son of a Methodist minister. Educated in Royton, near Oldham; Manchester Grammar School and, from 1949, at Cambridge where he studied Zoology and Agriculture obtaining a BA (1953) and MA (1957). At Cambridge he was a keen badminton player and was awarded a half blue. In 1956 he married Hetty Duffy and two years later took up the post of Land Pests Officer for MAFF.

Lived in Barnstable where he was organist of the Parish church. His collection is in Leicester Museum. Ernest Lewis, who knew Hunt, has written to me about him as follows: ‘I think he lived in the Lake District in earlier years... In July 1961 I spent a day collecting with Hunt at Braunton Burrows, the only time I met him. He was of a solitary character and I am not sure that he ever published anything or joined any societies. My introduction came through a friend, Walter Watts, who spent collecting holidays with him, but I do not know how they met’. (MD 5/03)

Harvey et al. (1996), p.108, record that a Ms Notebook listing 1029 Coleoptera from Trinidad is in the NHM (1953-636). (MD 5/03)

Well-known illustrator and Lepidopterist. He did publish two notes on Coleoptera 'The Burying Beetles or Sextons' in Recr. Science, 1860, pp.306-310, and ‘The English Beetles and their relatives in the Tropics’, ibid.,3, 1863, pp.1-10. (I have a great deal of information about this chap if anybody is interested). (MD 5/03)

Formed collections of insects including Coleoptera which passed from Shipley Art Gallery to Sunderland Museum in 1976. Davis and Brewer (1986), p.84, suggest that the collections were probably added to by Thomas James and W.B.Charlton. (MD 5/03)

Published 'The Furniture Beetle' in Sci. Gossip, 14, 1878, p.22. (MD 5/03)

Lepidopterist who also collected beetles. Lived at Talybont, Nr Bangor. FRES 1954. (MD 5/03)