Born in Ceylon where his father, John Philip Green, was a planter. Educated in England but returned to Ceylon at the age of nineteen to assist in the management of his father's estate. He soon became interested in Coccids and other pests, and in 1897 was appointed Honorary Entomologist to the Ceylon Government. Two years later he was appointed Government Entomologist, a position he held until 1913 when he retired to the the UK after suffering from malaria.

Mentioned by Marsham (1802) p.39 as the captor of Scarabaeus varius ‘in campis apertis sussexiae’. (MD 1/03)

Published a note on Coccinelidae in Scientific Gossip, 10, 1874, p.140. (MD 1/03)

Brother of George Robert (see above). Not a Coleopterist in particular but as Assistant (1824-1840) and then Keeper (1840- 1874) of the Zoological Department at the British Museum, he was certainly involved not just with the Coleoptera collections but also with many Coleopterists. Gray was born at Walsall, Staffordshire, and intended to make his career in the medical profession. He was befriended at an early age, however, together with J.O.Westwood, by A.H.Haworth.

A textile manufacturer of Haulgh, Bolton who retired from business in order to take up yachting and eventually died at Claygate, Surrey. It was in Gray’s yacht 'The Miranda' that Hamlet Clark made his voyage to Brazil and in which Wollaston made most of his voyages to the Atlantic Islands. In a brief obituary in EMM., 18, 1878, pp.190-191, the writer notes that it was during these voyages that Gray showed himself 'a most enthusiastic collector and acute observer' of insects.

Published ‘Description of a new Coleopterous insect belonging to the genus Prionus from India’ in Naturalist, 4, 1854, pp.158-59. Also published one or two notes on entomology in Scotland. Mentioned by Murray (1853) p.vii. Mike Dentonn informs me that there are specimens in the Willoughby Ellis collection in York Museum collected by J. Gray which probably refer to this Gray. There is an obituary notice in Glasgow Naturalit, 2, 1910, pp.68-69 which I have not seen. (MD 1/03)

Primarily an Ornithologist but well known to entomologists as one of the Keepers at the Zoological Department at the British Museum (Natural History). His entomological writings were mainly on Lepidoptera but did include one or two notes about exotic beetles including a description of a new species of Goliathus (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 34. Gray was the brother of J.E.Gray (see below) and a friend of J.G.Children, whose collections he re-arranged. Gilbert (1977) lists seven obituaries and other notices to which may be added that in EMM., 9, 1872-73, pp.23-24. (MD 1/03)

This name appears on Coleoptera in the collection of the Pusa Institute, Delhi. (MD 1/03)

Published two notes on beetles in Ent., 21, 1888, p.92: 'Carabus monilis in January' and 'Odontaeus mobilicornis in the Isle of Wight'. (MD 1/03)

Not recorded by Gilbert (1977) but there is a brief obituary in Proc.RESL., 12 (C), 1947-48, p.64. He was chiefly associated with the Birmingham area and was Secretary of the Entomological Section of the Birmingham Natural History and Philosophical Society for twelve years. The Lepidoptera are recorded to have been his chief interest 'but he also had a large collection of exotic ... Coleoptera'. His other interests included archaeology and malacology. (MD 1/03)