Published ‘Note on the voracity of Dytiscus marginalis’ in Zool.,2, 1844, pp.701-702. (MD 10/02)

Born at Guildford, Surrey, the son of a solicitor (see T. Edmonds above), and educated at Ashburton Grammar School, Devon. He decided to become a solicitor himself and was articled to a firm in London. After qualifying, however, he moved to join a firm in Bath. He was called up during the first World War and after being wounded on the beaches at Gallipoli, he returned to live with his father at ‘Strathmore’, Totnes, south Devon, and to join his father's firm in which he became a partner. Edmonds, who was sometimes known as ‘The’ Edmonds because of his initials, never married.

Sold 361 Coleoptera from Chile including the type of Cicindela gormazi [?], to the NHM in 1882 (82.23). Presumably this is the solicitor father of Thomas Herbert (see below) since the latter's obituary, by Donisthorpe, mentions that his father ‘was chiefly a Lepidopterist [who]... collected many rare species in Peru’. Donisthorpe also mentions that Edmonds senior lived in Totnes, Devon, and collected beetles in this country which were included in his son's collection. (MD 10/02)

Published ‘The Death Watch; the ticking of Anobium’ in Magazine of Natural History, 7, 1834, pp.468-469. (MD 10/02)

Lived for most of his life in Bowdon, Cheshire, where he is buried. He was primarily a Lepidopterist but did take up Coleoptera in the last years of his life and according to Edward Newman had made a very large collection before his death (Ent., 6, 1872, p.272). Sharp (1908) notes that much of his collecting was done in company with James Sidebotham who also lived at Bowdon. The pair not only collected in this country but also on the Continent to which, Sidebotham's obituaries state, he travelled frequently.

Well known Lepidopterist. Published ‘The nuptial flight of Hylesinus fraxini Panz.’ In EMM., 71, 1935, p.259; ‘Carabus auratus L. in NE London’, ibid., 77, 1941, p.207; ‘Insects and spiders mistaken for the Colorado beetle’, ibid., 79, 1943, p.89; and ‘Buprestis aurulenta L. in England’, ibid., 83, 1947, p.3. He worked at the Plant Pathological Laboratory, Harpenden. There is an obituary by N.D.Riley in Ent., 92, 1959, 155-157 with portrait. (MD 10/02)

Smith (1986) records that there are Coleoptera in the HDO taken by Edgar in the neighbourhood of Oxford in 1859. (MD 10/02)

Smith (1986) records that there is a letter in the HDO to Hope dated 1834 from Ecklon enclosing an account for S.African insects which he had purchased on Hope's behalf. (MD 10/02)

A Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He gave insects including 63 Coleoptera from Orange River Colony, and 20 from Bloemfontein to the NHM in 1904 (1904.90 and 1904.189). (MD 10/02)

A Reverend who was mainly interested in Diptera. Gave several thousand insects to the NHM mainly Diptera and Lepidoptera, but also including Coleoptera as follows: A Calosoma from Avon and Carabus auratus ‘taken at Shabrook by Bluett 1835’ (1875.39); 42 from Portugal (1880.68); 2 Coccinella from N. Italy (1881.34); 32, including 20 cave beetles from S. France (1881.40); 12 from the Cape of Good Hope (1881.55); 5 from Italy (1882.26); 20 from Spain (1884.12); 64 from Algeria (1894.114; 1895.34; 1895.75; 1896.273; 1897.268; and 1910.346) and 5 from Switzerland (1911.439).