Published ‘Descriptions of and a key to larvae of some S. African Cetoniinae’ in EMM., 123, 1987, pp.1-13. (MD 6/02)

Gave three gifts of insects including Coleoptera and larvae from the West Indies to the NHM in 1946 (1946.5 and possibly 1946.260). (MD 6/02)

Subscribed to two copies of Denny (1825). He Lived at East Farleigh in Kent. (MD 6/02)

Mentioned in Johnson and Halbert (1902) pp.543 and 546. The second reference is to a note by Dombrain on the cockchafer in the third annual report of the Dublin Natural History Society, 1841. (MD 6/02)

Educated at St. Paul's School and as a Scholar and School Exhibitioner at St. John's College, Cambridge. His interest in entomology started with the Lepidoptera when he was aged five, and over the next ten years he built up with his father and brother a very complete collection. While at St Paul's his interests turned to beetles, and specimens collected by him survived in the school collection in 1919. He continued to collect beetles while at Cambridge and after leaving, and he published a number of notes about his more interesting captures, eg.

Well known Hemipterist who worked at the NHM 1970-1991 and wrote the book The Hemiptera, OUP, 1991. He did publish one article on beetles ‘The first record of Apion dispar Germar in Britain’ in EMM., 110, 1974, p.181, based on a specimen which he had taken at Lydden in Kent on 4 August 1967. I am grateful to Mr Dolling for writing to me about himself. (MD 3/03)

Member of the Delme Radcliffe Expedition\Anglo German Boundary Commission. While on the expedition he collected 225 Coleoptera in Uganda which he gave to the NHM in 1904 (1904.23). (MD 6/02)

Dobson did his Ph.D. at the University of London on species of Psylliodes. Parts of this research were subsequently published, eg. ‘Hatching of the egg in the Cabbage stem flea beetle Psylliodes chrysocephala’ in EMM., 95, 1959, p.180, and ‘The immature stages of the flea beetles Psylliodes cuprea and P. chrysocephala’, ibid., 96, 1960, p.1.

Bequeathed 21 Coleoptera to the NHM in 1880 (80.15). His address is recorded as 4 Queens Gate Place, London,SW. (Related to Nicholas Frank Dobree, the well-known Lepidopterist?) (MD 6/02)

Gave 142 Indian insects (mainly Coleoptera) to the RSM in 1896 (1896-8) (Listed in the annual Register) (MD)