A Major. Gave 43 large store boxes of foreign insects including Coleoptera to Birmingham on 30 September 1924 (listed in Natural History Department Accessions Book 18). His address is recorded as Freeford, Lichfield. (MD 9/02)

Published ‘A weevil which eats fruit trees’ in J.C.Loudon's Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement, 6, 1830, p.501. (MD 9/02)

Gave 73 Coleoptera which he had collected in the Congo to the NHM in 1923 (1923.290). (MD 9/02)

Lived at Helsby and Prestatyn before moving to Llandudno a few days before his death. He was Managing Director of the Longford Wire Company. Dutton was particularly interested in the entomology of Lancashire and Cheshire, especially Delamere Forest. His capture of 12 specimens of Dryops (Parnus) nitidulus (Heer) on the sand hills at Birkdale, Southport, in July 1890 which he published in EMM., 39, 1903, p.152, was the first record of that species in this country. He also published ‘Lathrobium rufipenne Gyll.

This name appears on Coleoptera in the collection of the Pusa Institute, Delhi. He is named by G.J.Arrow, FBI, Llamelicornia, as collecting Coleoptera at Chapra, Bengal. (MD 9/02)

Gave 50 Coleoptera from Bengal to the NHM in 1884 (84.37). (MD 9/02)

were given to the Museum by his wife in 1928 (1928.99). There is material related to Durrant in David Sharp’s scrapbook and autograph album in the RESL (Pedersen (2002) p.49). Gilbert (1977) lists eight obituaries of which the most important is probably that by N.D. Riley in Ent., 61, 1928, pp. 73-75 which includes a portrait. (MD 9/02, 11/09)

Well known Lepidopterist and authority on entomological nomenclature who was Lord Walsingham’s private secretary and had charge of his collections. When Walsingham left his collection to the NHM he provided funds for Durrant to continue to look after it. Durrant published two notes on species of ‘Blaps from Hitchin’ (Trans.ESL., 1884, Proc.

Worked at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Gave 67 Coleoptera from Para, Brazil to the NHM in 1901 (1901.323). (MD 9/02)

Gave 3000 insects to the Sunderland Art Gallery and Museum on 24 April 1907. Most without data. (MD 9/02)