Trained as a chemist but became better known as an economic entomologist who was much involved in the affairs of the Association of Applied Biologists of which he was President 1938- 1940. Gimingham's main work was in the study and development of insecticides first at Rothamstead and later at the Plant Pathology Laboratory at Harpenden. He played an important part in the setting up in 1942 of the Ministry of Agriculture's approval scheme for crop protection products and in running the quarantine scheme which was probably responsible for preventing the Colorado beetle establishing itself here.

Director of Doncaster Museum between 1953 and 1967. Specialist in the Cerambycidae of which he built up an extensive worldwide collection (several hundred thousand specimens) at Doncaster with no regional bias through purchase, exchange and gift. The collection, which is maintained separately, includes numerous types and has been extensively referred to in the literature, usually as the Gilmour collection. There are specimens collected by Gilmour in the Kauffmann collection at Manchester. FRES. (MD 1/03)

Lived at Bath where he did most of his entomological collecting and died. Added Amara nitida Sturm to the British list. Published a number of articles about beetles in Journ. Micr. nat. Sci. including 'On Mounting Beetles and other Insects without Pressure' (4, 1885, pp.151-154); 'The Mouth organs and other Characteristics of the British Geodephaga’ (5, 1886, pp.10-24); ‘Whirligig Beetles' (6, 1887, pp.34-40) and 'The external Anatomy of the Dor Beetle' (ibid., pp.88-95). In EMM. he published ‘Coleoptera in the neighbourhood of Bath' (23, 1886, p.161). With A.

Duff (1993), p.3 records that Gillo was ‘the first local man to make extensive studies of Somerset beetles... Gillo’s collection passed to the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution probably in 1914, and in 1933 was displayed in glass topped boxes around the walls of one of the rooms in the Institution’s premises... The collections... are currently inaccessible and uncurated, and it is likely that extensive damage has taken place to any surviving entomological material’. (MD 10/03)

Collected various insects including 50 Coleoptera in Somaliland which were then presented to the NHM (1898/49). She was travelling with Mr and Mrs Lort Phillips. (MD 1/03)

Mentioned by Stephens (1828) 1, p.132 (JEG) and 137 (JBG). (MD 1/03)

This is the Mr Gibson mentioned by Stephens (1828)1, p.168 and 2, pp.16,17. Sharpe (1908) p.12 states 'It is to be regretted that few among the earlier of these students [of Lancashire entomology] left any records of their labours, in fact many of them owed the only education possessed to that training which nature herself afforded. Among such names occur ... Samuel Gibson of Hebden Bridge and Jethro Tinker of Staleybridge. These men were the first of the group of whom any records exist, and had died out by the middle of the last century.

Mainly a Lepidoperist but he also collected beetles. He lived in St. Albans and most of his entomological work appears to have been done in Hertfordshire. According to The Natural History of the Hitchin Region edited by Reginald Hine, 1934, p.141, Gibbs prepared the list of 1,523 species which appears in the VCH. His only other publications on beetles appear to have been several articles in the Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society including 'Coleoptera new to Hertfordshire' (12, 1905, p.156). Many specimens taken by Gibbs are in the collection at St.

A Mr Gibbs is mentioned in Stephens (1828), 1, p.55 as a contributor of specimens to the Coleoptera collection of Mr Raddon. (MD 1/03)

The Acquisitions Register of the NHM records that a Mr Gibbons gave 123 Coleoptera from Moreton Bay, Australia and 4 from India in 1856 (1856/1). (MD 1/03)