Published an article on the stag beetle in Science Gossip, 10, 1874, p.185. Presumably a relative of the above. (MD 3/03)

Published two articles on 'The Glow Worm's Light' and 'Ladybird' in Science Gossip, 10, 1874, pp.85-88 and 94. (MD 3/03)

Born in St. Mary Church, S. Devon but lived most of his life in Wales at Penarth, near Cardiff. His main interest was the Aculeate Hymenoptera but he also collected Coleoptera and Hemiptera. Colin Matheson, who wrote his obituary in EMM, 94. 1958, p.209, noted: 'The total of his donations of entomological material [to the National Museum of Wales] over a period of 47 years numbered more than 11,000 specimens of which Hymenoptera, Coleoptera and Hemiptera formed the great bulk'.

K.C.Lewis tells me that he has specimens collected by Hall in his collection. (MD 12/06)

He wrote one article, 'Coleoptera from Hastings' in Trans. City of Lond.Ent.nat.hist.Soc., 1896, p.5, which is referred to by Joseph Cribb in EMM, 90, 1954, p.80. (MD 3/03)

Son of an East India Merchant. Lived first at Forest Hill, near London, and later at Deal and Dover. Appears to have been interested in entomology at an early age and pursued this interest together with his career as a musician. Hall published 21 notes and articles on insects before his death most of which are on Lepidoptera. Several, however, relate to Coleoptera including 'Cerambyx cerdo at Deal' in Ent., 16, 1883, pp.23-24. He worked closely with E.A.Newbery.

Wrote Common British Beetles in Blacks Peeps at Nature Series. Ernest Lewis, who took up beetles as a result of reading Hall’s book as a child, tells me that Hall ‘was that ecclesiastical rarity , a minister of the Swedenborgian New Church of Jeruslaem, and editor of its magazine’. (MD 3/03)

Born in Belfast and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. Subsequently studied for the law, and was called to the bar, but he preferred the study of literature and natural history, and it is not clear whether he ever practised. He settled in the North of Ireland where, in 1843, he was elected High Sheriff of Antrim. In 1860, for reasons of health, he moved to Italy where he took up residence with his relative, Signor Pisani, at the Villa Pisani, near Lucca. Following a visit to Sicily with Dr Perceval Wright his health deteriorated and he died in Lucca aged 63.

Well-known Irish entomologist who worked at the Science and Art Museum, Dublin (now the National Museum of Ireland) from 1892 to 1923. He was appointed Technical Assistant in 1904 and Assistant Naturalist, in place of G.H.Carpenter, a few months later. His first publications concentrated mainly on Coleoptera and appeared in the Irish Naturalist from 1892 (listed in ryan et al. (1984) pp.64-67. These led to the work for which he is best known by Coleopterists: 'A List of the Beetles of Ireland' which he wrote with the Rev.