Gave jointly with Sir William Ingham various insects including 1,071 Coleoptera to the NHM in 1907 collected by G.W.Stalker in Alexandria and Australia (1907.261). (MD 12/02)

Born at Hankow in China where his father, the Rev. John S. Fordham was a Methodist missionary. He was educated at King's College, Pontefract, and at Sheffield University where he trained to be a doctor of medicine, qualifying at the early age of 21. After a period of general practice in Sheffield, Fatfield in Co. Durham, and Bubwith, near Selby, he returned to Sheffield University in 1919 to take a Diploma in Public Health and subsequently took up public health appointments in Sheffield and Gateshead. In 1928 he contracted encephalitis and was obliged to retire from active life.

Gave 123 Coleoptera which he had collected in S. Rhodesia to the NHM in 1933 (1933-380). (MD 12/02)

K.C.Lewis tells me that there are specimens collected by Ford in his collection. (MD 12/06)

A Captain in the Army. He gave various insects including 36 Coleoptera from East Africa to the NHM (1906.201 20 specimens, 1907.168 16 specimens). (MD 12/02)

Gave several hundred insects which he had collected in Africa, including 344 beetles, to the NHM in 1935 (1935.459). (MD 12/02)

Well known Bournemouth dealer. He started collecting as a young man when living at Hastings and moved to Bournemouth in 1904 at the time of setting up his business. H.J.Turner said of him ‘he was always an enthusiastic and tireless field worker and few had a wider and more varied knowledge of insects; his greatest interest, however, was always in Coleoptera, and he added many extremely rare and local species of that order to the Hampshire list’ (EMM., 79, 1943, p.155).

Born at Cheltenham, the second- son of J.S.Forbes, a well known railway director. Educated at Winchester and, from 1876, at St. John's College, Cambridge where he took high honours in natural science. He was particularly interested in anatomical studies, especially of birds, and succeeded to the prosectorship of the Zoological Society after the premature death of his friend Professor Garrod. His vacations were devoted to zoological expeditions and included visits to Brazil in 1880, the United States in 1881, and an extended visit to the River Niger in 1882.

Published one or two articles on entomology in Scott.Nat., Nature, etc. in the 1870s and 80s, and a book A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago, A Narrative of Travel and Exploration from 1878 to 1883, 1885. Smith, A.Z. (1986) p.119, notes that Forbes gave a small collection of insects from Peru to the HDO in 1919. (MD 12/02)

This is the distinquished botanist, zoologist and geologist who was at one time Professor at King's College, London and the author of many important works. He is not recorded to have had an interest in entomology but he did give 422 Coleoptera from the Levant and Asia Minor to the NHM in 1843 (1843.85) and further beetles and other insects from the Isle of Paros in 1846 (1846.14). He also gave collections of Coleoptera made by a Mr Macgillivray in New South Wales, Madeira, etc., while on a voyage on HMS Rattlesnake, to the Museum in 1848 (1848.53). (MD 12/02)