Gave various insects including Coleoptera which he had collected in Bankok to the NHM in 1899 (1899/20). (MD 5/03)

Entomologist with a particular interest in beetles. Lived in Hampstead, London.

Gave a small collection of Coleoptera from Coblentz and Lausanne to the NHM in 1852 (1852/139). (MD 5/03)

Gave various insects to the NHM in the 1840s including Buprestids (1847\6). Some were from East Africa. Is this perhaps the same Miss Hill who is referred to by Marsham (1802), as living and collecting Coleoptera in Devon (pp.xxiv, 40, 59, 73, 117, 136, 212, 218, 220, 227)? (MD 5/03)

Shropshire Coleopterist and Lepidopterist who published a number of notes in EMM. including 'Corymbites angustulus Kies. an Elaterid new to the list of British Coleoptera' (76, 1940, p.14). The insects, which he had taken plentifully on the banks of the River Vyrnwy, were identified for him by Donisthorpe. Hignett’s collection of 7000 specimens, mainly from the Oswestry area, housed in twenty drawers, was given to Manchester Museum via Mrs Marshall on 25 May 1952. It was accompanied by manuscript correspondence.

Gave eight collections of Coleoptera which he had taken in various parts of the world including Ireland, Australia, W. Africa and Chile to the NHM between 1895 and 1900 amounting to some five hundred specimens (1895/44 and 164; 1897/215, 264, 280; 1898/100 and 235; 1900/123). His address is recorded as 110 Mildmay Road, London, N. (MD 5/03)

Worked for the auctioneers S. Stevens. Smith (1986), p. 125, records that he sold insects of all orders to the HDO between 1866-1876. (MD 5/03)

A Reverend. Published ten articles on Coleoptera and Lepidoptera between 1866 and 1893 including 'On the appendages of a rare Coleopterous Insect belonging to the family Dynastidae' in Proc. lit. phil. Soc. Liverpool, 32, 1878, pp.74 - 76. (MD 5/03)

Lived at Lord Street, Birkenhead. Published several articles on foreign Coleoptera and other insects between 1869 and 1874. These included 'Description of a new Genus and Species of Prionidae' in Trans.ESL., 1869, pp.11-12. Other species were described for him by other entomologists eg. Newman in Ent., 1842. The types of all the species described up to 1855 were presented to the NHM in 1855/91. Numerous further insects from many other localities were subsequently given to the Museum and are listed in the index to the Accessions Registers 1864-1893.

Smith (1986), p.125, records that the HDO acquired Coleoptera from the Celebes from Hickson in 1885, and other insects in 1887 and 1888. (MD 5/03)