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DOUGHTY, Chester Goodwin

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Third son of Reverend Ernest George Doughty, rector of Martlesham, and of Mary Francis Christie of the Manor House, Framingham Pigot, Norfolk. Cousin of Doughty of Arabia Deserta fame. Educated at Crespigny House school, Aldeburgh; Bradfield College, Berkshire; and between 1888 and 1891 at Pembroke College, Cambridge where he took degrees in Law. Became articled to a firm of Solicitors at Plymouth and subsequently moved to another firm in London, before, on the death of his father in 1915, giving up the law and moving to Gorleston where he remained for the rest of his life.

DOUBLEDAY, Henry

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Brother of Edward above and another well known Lepidopterist who is not recorded to have had an interest in beetles. However, he is mentioned by J.Stephens, 1829, pp.103,125, and he published ‘Clytus erythrocephalus in England’ in EMM., 9, 1873, p.268, on the basis of specimens found in his Epping garden but which he assumed had been imported in skins, and which he subsequently gave to John Curtis. (MD 9/02)

DOUBLEDAY, Edward

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Well known Lepidopterist who is not recorded to have had an interest in beetles. However, he did give 862 Coleoptera, including foreign specimens, and a number of other insects to the NHM on 14 January 1840. It is not clear whether he collected these himself. (MD 9/02)

DOSSETOR, T.P.

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Listed in Ent.Ann. in 1856 and 1857 as interested in British Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. His address is given as 13 Poultry, London. He made three gifts of insects to the NHM between 1851 and 1863 (51.146, 54.56, 63.17). Janson's MS diary at Cambridge records 'No 722 Dossetor coll. 4 June 1868 sale' but there is no reference to a sale in Chalmers-Hunt (1976). Mick Cooper informs me that there is further information about Dossetor in Nottingham Museum. (MD 6/02, 10/03)

DORMER, John Baptiste Joseph, 12th Baron

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Lived at Grove Park in Warwickshire. Made his career in the army and saw active service in the Crimea and India. His obituary in EMM., 37, 1901, p.49, states that he ‘had a strong taste for entomology and formed a collection of Cicindelidae... outside this speciality his captures were given to friends’. Dormer was of a retiring disposition and was known to only a few, but these friends did include H.W.Bates who received specimens from him. Dormer also presented specimens to the NHM in 1892 (92.78. 33 specimens from India, Ceylon and Japan) and 1893 (93.72. 12 specimens from India).

DONOVAN, Edward

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Little is known of Donovan's early life. He appears to have inherited a considerable fortune and to have become interested in natural history in his teens. After 1800 he made several journeys through Monmouthshire and S. Wales of which he published a very useful account in 1805 illustrated with his own drawings. By 1807 his collections of natural history objects on which he had spent many thousands of pounds were such that he was able to open them to the public as the London Museum and Institution of Natural History. This institution remained open for many years and catalogues exist.

DONISTHORPE, Horace St. John Kelly

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Information about Donisthorpe is surprisingly thin considering that he lived to the age of eighty and for much of his life was one of our foremost Coleopterists. One might have thought that the strength of character hinted at by contemporaries; his 'kinks', about which I have heard and seen various references; and the controversy which surrounded some of his new species, would have ensured a fuller record, but this is not the case.

DONCASTER, C.C.

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Collected insects in S. America some of which he exchanged with the NHM. 5 Dytiscidae which he collected in Columbia were given to the Museum by Dr W. Philipson (1950.409). (MD 6/02)
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