A Doctor. Smith (1986) p.128 records that he gave Coleoptera from the Celebes collected 1895-96, including mounts with two or more specimens, to the HDO in 1914. (MD 5/03)

A dental surgeon who lived at Moseley and who is believed to have taken up entomology late in life. He was active in the Birmingham Natural History and Philosophical Society and left his twelve drawer collection of British beetles to it. (Centenary History of the Society, 1958, p.37). (MD 5/03)

Published 'Saperda carcharias at Cambridge' in Ent., 23, 1890, p.262. (MD 5/03)

Sold (?) 271 Coleoptera from Java to the NHM in 1848 (1848/92). (MD 5/03)

Mentioned by Murray (1853), p.viii. Is this, perhaps, the same Horsburgh who sold various insects including 13 Coleoptera from Sarawak to the NHM in 1855 (1855/7)? (MD 5/03)

T.B.Kitchen records in EMM, 98, 1962, p.22 that Horrell inspired W.D.Hincks to become interested in foreign Coleoptera and that he had a collection which Hincks subsequently acquired. Hancock and Pettit (1981) record that there is a collection of mosses in Bolton Museum which Horrell exchanged for duplicate British Coleoptera, and that his address at that time was 49 Danby Street, Peckham, London. (MD 5/03)

Mentioned in Stephens (1828), p.176. (MD 5/03)

Youngest son of Rev. Joseph Horner of Everton, Bedfordshire. He was educated at St. Bartholomew's Hospital and admitted MRCS in 1872. Prior to this he had acted as surgeon in the Franco-Prussian War. He was also a surgeon on the 'Pandora' during the Arctic voyage which that vessel made in 1875-76, and he published some notes on Arctic Natural History when he returned.

Died in Norwood, south London, but had previously spent many years in India, initially in the Civil Service and later as a judge. His entomological interests covered several orders including beetles on which he published 'Exploding property of Paussidae', Zool., 4, 1846, p.1357, and 'Singular use for a Brupestris at Madras', ibid., p.1357. He is recorded to have made extensive collections which were almost destroyed at the time of the Indian Mutiny. FES and Member the Horticultural Society and attended their meetings. FLS (elected a few days before his death).

Born at 37 Upper Seymour Street, London, the second son of John Thomas Hope of Netley Hall, Shrewsbury, and Ellen Hester Mary, only child and heiress of Sir Thomas Edwardes, Bart. He was privately educated by Rev. Delafosse of Richmond, and from 1817 at Christ Church, Oxford where he acquired BA in December 1820 and MA in April 1823. He was then presented to the Curacy of the family living of Frodesley in Shropshire, but was quickly obliged to retire as a result of ill health.