DIGBY, Bassett
Gave 8 Coleoptera which he had collected in Kirensk, N.E.Siberia, and 246 Coleoptera and other insects which he had collected in Finland and Esthonia in July 1920, to the NHM (1915.349 and 1920.412). (MD 6/02)
DICKSON, Matthew
Gave more than 100 Coleoptera from Formosa to the NHM in 1878 (78.20 and 78.24). Lived at Dunbeth Lodge, Coatbridge. (MD 6/02)
DICKSON
Mentioned by Marsham (1802) p.388 as the owner of Elater pectinicornis L. (MD 6/02)
DICKINSON, James A.
Worked at the Sheffield City Museum between 1971-73 when he contributed many Coleoptera to the collections (I am grateful to Steve Garland for this information). (MD 6/02)
DIBB, Reginald Arthur Lawrence
Lived at Kirkella, East Yorkshire and collected Coleoptera. FRES from 1949. (MD 3/03)
DIBB, John Rothwell
An insurance broker who lived in the Leeds area of Yorkshire until the late 1940s when he moved to Nottingham. Although he worked on the Neuroptera, Diptera, Ephemeroptera and other orders, he is best known to entomologists for his Field Book of Beetles, 1948 and for the Passalidae sections of the Coleopterorum Catalogus. The latter was compiled in conjunction with W.D.Hincks, with whom he worked closely, and was the result of a detailed study of this group which Dibb had started in his early twenties.
DESVIGNES, Thomas
General entomologist known primarily for his work on varieties and speciation in Lepidoptera particularly Peronea cristana, and for his Catalogue of the British Ichneumonidae in the British Museum, 1856. He also worked on Coleoptera, however, particularly in the early part of his career when he published a ‘Note on Elater crocatus from Ziegler’, in Ent.Mag., 4, 1837, p.255; ‘New British Elater’ in Ent., 1, 1842, p.326, and ‘Captures in Shirewood Forest’, ibid., pp. 188-89.
DERHAM, William
Published ‘A letter concerning an Insect that is commonly called Death-Watch’ in Philosophical Transactions, 22(271), 1701, pp.832-834. He was a Doctor of Theology who was born in Stowton and died in Upminster. He also published articles on wasps and other insects. (MD 6/02)
DERBY, Earl of
See STANLEY, Edward Smith
DENVIL, Horace Gaskell
All round naturalist with interests in birds and reptiles - he kept snakes, terrapins and an alligator until it outgrew its accomodation! - entomology and horticulture. Denvil was employed by the National Provincial Bank from 1917 until his retirement forty years later. He worked at first in the city of London but later moved to the Warwick Gardens branch where he had to represent the bank at Earls Court and Olympia exhibitions. He married in 1928 and had a twin son and daughter. Of his natural history interests entomology appears to have been his main concern. A.S.