Well known Lepidopterist. Amongst the many thousands of butterflies which he gave to the NHM as a result of his world wide collecting activities are 7 beetles from Argentina and Chile (1902.188). He lived at Colesborne, Cheltenham. Gilbert (1977) p.106 lists eight obituary and other notices. (MD 10/02)

Well known Lepidopterist, entomological histologist and sportsman who worked at the HDO for some twenty years and was President of the RESL 1931-32. Amongst his gifts to the HDO were Coleoptera from Brazzaville, French Congo presented in 1910, and a portrait of Professor Poulton taken through the eye of a glowworm! Gilbert (1977) p.106 lists six obituaries and other notices. (MD 10/02)

Published ‘Odontaeus mobilicornis at Wellington College’ (EMM., 27, 1891, p.109) and ‘Coleoptera near Wellington College in July’, (ibid., 28, 1892, pp.288-289). He appears to have been on the staff of the College and a member of the Natural Science Society. (MD 10/02)

Oxford zoologist who published The Pattern of Animal Communities (1960). His publications on Coleoptera include: ‘The habitat of Staphylinus ater Gr.’ (EMM., 87, 1951, p.175; ‘Prionychus ater (F.) in Wytham Woods, Berks.’ (ibid., 96, 1960, 176-177); and ‘Aulonium trisulcum (Fourc.) in Wytham Woods, Berks.’ (ibid., 106, 1970, pp.190-192).

Mentioned by E.W.Janson in the Ent.Ann., 1856, p.86 as the captor of a specimen of Otiorhynchus septentrionis Herbst which was in the collection of John Curtis. (MD 10/02)

Gave 4 beetles and other insects from N. Rhodesia to the NHM in 1933 (1933.408). (MD 10/02)

Lancashire doctor who was a keen botanist and entomologist. He compiled a list of the Coleoptera of the Liverpool area which was first read before the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society in 1880 and published in The Naturalist, subsequently communicated to the Liverpool Biological Society on 13 April 1888, and finally published in book form as The Coleoptera of the Liverpool District (1889). Sharp (1908) said of it: ‘reproduces in succinct form all the local information regarding the order at that time available.

see WILLOUGHBY-ELLIS

Gave various zoological specimens to the NHM including 14 Coleoptera from Tristan da Cunha (1953.360). (MD 10/02)