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HOBSON, Edward

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Well known Manchester musicologist who was President and Founder of the Manchester Banksian Society. He is recorded to have paid some attention to entomology in the period 1825 - 1827 and the beetle Chrysomela hobsoni was named after him by J.F.Stephens. A reference to him in Stephens (1829), p.189, suggests that he may have been a friend of Rev. F.W.Hope. (MD 5/03)

HOBSON, Alfred Dennis

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A Professor at the University of Newcastle. Davis and Brewer (1986), p.81, record that among many gifts of insects he gave 600 British Coleoptera and 500 foreign Coleoptera, collected by himself, to the University Zoology Department. (MD 5/03)

HOBBY, Bertram Maurice

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Well known as a worker on predatory insects, particularly flies, and as the editor-in-chief for forty five years (1939 - 1983) of the EMM, a position in which he gave great help and encouragement to many writers about beetles (including myself). Hobby did have an interest in Coleoptera, K.G.V.Smith writing in his obituary in EMM, 119, 1983, pp.179-183: 'He never lost his interest in field work which he would indulge whenever time permitted. He delighted in bringing in the first captures each year.

HISLOP, Robert

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Born in Dunse, Scotland. He had two brothers who were Reverends, Alexander, a writer on religious subjects, and Stephen, a well known worker on Indian geology. He took up teaching as a profession and worked in the Glasgow Normal Seminary, the Free Church Training Schools and Blair House Academy, Polmont. Hislop was apparently of a retiring nature and wrote only a few notes but he was an enthusiastic collector and contributed substantially to our knowledge of Scottish Coleoptera.

HINTON, Howard Everett

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Born in Mexico and educated at the University of California and later at King’s College, Cambridge. Took part in scientific expeditions to Mexico 1933, and to Peru, Bolivia and Brazil, 1937. Worked at the NHM 1939-1949 when he was appointed Lecturer in the Department of Zoology at Bristol Univesity where he became Head of the Department in 1970. His particular interest was in the Coleoptera, and he made extensive use of the electron microscope to study eggs, spiracles and cuticular structures.

HINCKS, Walter Douglas

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Born in Melton Mowbray, the only son of Walter J.Hincks, the official of a Life Insurance Company who was also a talented artist. Moved to Leeds in 1918. Entered the Leeds College of Pharmacy becoming M.P.S. at the age of 21 and then joined C.F.Thackeray and Co. a large firm of manufacturing chemists. After being promoted to Manager of one of the divisions, he left in 1947 to take up the post of Keeper of Entomology at the Manchester Museum. While at the museum he was awarded a Ph.D. by the university (1954). When still in post he became ill and died at Heaton Norris, Stockport.

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