A Major. Gave more than fifty Coleoptera Collected in Mesopotamia, Palestine and W. Africa to NHM between 1921 and 1927 (1921.257, 1922.219, 1923.471, 1927.385). (MD 12/02)

This name appears on Coleoptera in the general collection at Cambridge. (MD 12/02)

A Reverend. Listed as a subscriber to Denny,H.(1825) and mentioned by Marsham, T.(1802) pp.xxiii and 343. (MD 12/02)

Listed in the Ent.Ann., 1860 as being interested in British Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. His address is given as 38 Upper Bedford Place, London WC. This is presumably the same collector that Chalmers-Hunt,J.M. (1976) notes as selling Hemiptera and Coleoptera at Stevens’ rooms in 1894-1895 (Coleoptera on 29 May 1894). (MD 12/02)

Charles Mackechnie-Jarvis, when compiling his ‘A History of the British Coleoptera’ in Proc.BENHS., 1976, p.99, was in touch with surviving descendants of the family and notes that Francillon descended from a Huguenot refugee silk weaver Francois Francillon who settled in Spitalfields at the end of the 17th century. He includes a family tree, and further notes that Francillon was married three times and left two daughters but no male descendants. His statement that Francillon practised as a physician, however, was taken from Hagen and is a mistake, Francillon was, in fact, a jeweller.

Gave various gifts of Coleoptera to the NHM in the 1840s and 1850s including: 3 Carabus (1844.53); a Lucanus from China (1845.39); 3 Carabus lusitanicus from Lisbon (1846.3); 4 beetles from Spain (1846.80) and 166 from Palermo (1857.154). Other gifts indicate that he also visited India. (MD 12/02)

A Doctor. Gave insects including Coleoptera from Northern Nigeria to the NHM between 1909 and 1915 (1909.209,1910.44 and 1915.399). (MD 12/02)

Botanist who worked at Kew and later at Wisley. Published a number of notes on Coleoptera in the EMM., in 1923 and 1925 including ‘Otiorrhynchus rugifrons and O. sulcatus as pests of Alpine plants’ (59, 1923, pp.38-39) and Melandrya caraboides larvae attacking plum trees' (59, 1923, pp.199-200). (MD 12/02)

Mentioned in Cabinet of British Entomology, 1854. Presumably the same Foxcroft from whom the NHM purchased 700 insects in 1850 and 1852 including 32 Coleoptera (1850.129) and a further 222 specimens collected in Wales and Scotland (1852.122). He also gave Pyrochroa larvae to the Museum (1852.42). (MD 12/02)

Recorded in Ent.Ann., 1860, p.15 as being interested in Coleoptera and living at Harleston in Norfolk. He gave six beetles to the NHM in 1861 (1861.130) and is presumably the J. Leedes Fox recorded in Hagen,H.(1862) p.246, as publishing ‘A list of the rares [sic] species of Coleoptera which occur, or have been taken in the neighbourhood of Harleston, Norfolk and in the neighbourhood of Bungary [sic] by W. Garness [sic]’ in Naturalist, 8, 1858, pp.16-18, 87-89, 160-161. (MD 12/02)