Sold various insects to the NHM in the early 1840s including 178 Coleoptera (1842/1) and a further 3 (1841/10). Might this be perhaps John Gould who gave insects from Brazil to the Museum at this time? (MD 1/03)

This is the well known zoologist, Plymouth Brother and father of Sir Edmund Gosse whose famous autobiographical account of his childhood, Father and Son (first published anonymously in 1907), described in detail his father's fanaticism. Gosse's zoological work focussed in particular on marine biology but in his early life also included Coleoptera. He was born in Worcester the son of Thomas Gosse, a miniature painter and writer. After moving to Coventry and Leicester shortly after birth his parents settled at Poole in Dorset.

Presented 12 Coleoptera to the NHM on 23 June 1841. Perhaps related to A. and H.L.Gory see Smith (1986) p.77 for MS material in the HDO. (MD 1/03)

Youngest son of the Reverend G. Cornelius Gorham, vicar of Brampford Speke, a well known divine and antiquary and party to a famous, successful law suit against Henry Philpotts, Bishop of Exeter, in 1848, arising because the Bishop refused to institute Gorham to his living on the grounds of his alleged unorthodoxy in the matter of infant baptism. Gorham was educated at Rugby School and for ten years took up the profession of Civil Engineer in London. He then studied for the church at Lichfield Theological College and was ordained in 1865 to a curacy at Ilam.

For many years the Rector of Rusper, near Horsham. This was the parish to which H.S.Gorham (see below) was at one time attached and Gore and he appear to have been friends (see, for example, Gorham diary entries for 1871). He was certainly interested in entomology by the 1860s for he was one of the original subscribers to the EMM. His brief obituary in this magazine records that he was an 'assiduous collector chiefly of British Coleoptera but published very little, (25, 1889, p.402).

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Captured the first Kent specimen of Paratillus cars Newman in a bus between Maidstone and Sevenoaks (EMM., 96, 1961, p.220). I am grateful to Jonathan Cooter who has provided me with the following note about him 'Lived for some time in Kent, retired to (or whilst at) Bishopbriggs, in the northern suburbs of Glasgow. Left his collection in its home-made cabinet to the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow University, in turn presented to the City Museum and Art Gallery, Kelvingrove.

Coleoptera collected by Gordon are in the Hall collection at Oldham (Information from Simon Hayhow). (MD 1/03)

Presented various insects including Coleoptera from Australia to the NHM in 1906 (1906/3). (MD 1/03)

Mentioned by Murray (1853) pp.vii and viii: 'Our knowledge of the insects of the eastern part of the first of these counties [Fife] has been increased by the examination of a large collection made at St. Andrews by Mr Harry Goodsir, one of the surgeons of the unfortunate expedition under Franklin, which his brother, Prof. Goodsir, of the University of Edinburgh, kindly intrusted to me for examination.' (MD 1/03)