CROWTHER, James
Mentioned by W.E.Sharp, The Coleoptera of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1908, p.12 as one of the 'earlier ... students' of Coleoptera in the area. (MD 4/02)
CROWTHER, Henry
Wrote six notes on beetles between 1877 and 1896: 'Wetherby Coleoptera' (Naturalist, 3, 1877, p.8); 'Carabus nitens at Richmond' (ibid., p.25); 'Clivina fossor. Linn.' (ibid., pp.25-26); 'Coleoptera at Norland Moor' (ibid., p.59); 'Clivina fossor myrmecophilus' (EMM., 15, 1878, p.19) and ‘Monochammus sutor in Yorkshire' (Ent., 28, 1895, p.16). He also wrote one note about locusts. Mick Cooper informs me that there is further information about Crowther in Nottingham Museum. (MD 4/02, 10/03)
CROWSON, Roy Albert
Born in Hadlow, Kent. Educated at Judd School, Tonbridge and at Imperial College, London University (Ph.D. 1937). Served in the Royal Air Force 1941/2-46. He was appointed Assistant Curator of the Tunbridge Wells Museum in 1938 and worked there until 1948 when he took up the post of Lecturer in Zoological Taxonomy at Glasgow University. Promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1964, and, on his retirement in 1980, Honorary Lecturer. His flat, close to the University, where he lived with his wife Betty (nee Campbell, married 1954) was well known to numerous visiting entomologists.
CROTCH, William Duppa
Younger brother of George Robert (see above). An obituary notice in EMM., 39, 1903, p.256, states: 'we think he studied for the medical profession, but, finding it distasteful, did not qualify'. It is certain that he accompanied his brother on entomological excursions from an early date and that in his youth he shared with him an almost equal enthusiasm. He published his first entomological article (on Lepidoptera) in Zoo., 16, 1858, p.6213, and his first note on Coleoptera in EWI., 8, 1860, p.54. He also published on the Hemiptera at this time.
CROTCH, George Robert
Born in Somerset the son of the Rev. W.R.Crotch and the grandson of Dr W.Crotch, organist to George III. Little is known of his youth except that his father took a post at Cambridge and that his son gained a place at the University matriculating at St.John's College in 1861 and graduating in 1864. In 1866 he was appointed to a post at the University Library and in the following year obtained the better post of second assistant librarian. It was at this time that he gained his M.A.
CROSS, W.
Listed in the Ent. Ann., 1860, as being interested in British Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. His address is given as Dales Street, Preston. (MD 4/02)
CROFT, Henry Holmes
Born in London. Educated by French and Spanish refugees, and subsequently at Tavistock House. During this period he became particularly interested in chemistry. After leaving school he spent a year in the office of his father who was Deputy Paymaster General in the Ordnance Department. After taking advice from Faraday, Croft was sent to study chemistry at the University of Berlin and it was there that he first became interested in entomology. After three and a half years, when he obtained many distinctions, he returned to England.
CRIPPS, H.
Published 'Notes of the Season' in ERJV., 1, 1890, 133-34, an account of collecting at Brockenhurst and Chattenden, which included Coleoptera. He lived at Dalyell Road, Stockwell. This is probably the same Cripps who showed Coleoptera at meetings of the CLENHS at this time (as recorded in eg. ERJV., 2, 1891, p.300, and 3, 1892, p.21) (MD 4/02)
CRIBB, Herbert Joseph
Born in Hammersmith and educated at Latimer School. Served in the Royal Sussex Regiment 1916-1919 and was wounded at the Battle of the Somme. Subsequently became a sculptor and served as Eric Gill's first apprentice. Lived at Ditchling and was one of the founder members of the Guild of St. Joseph and Dominic there. His carvings are to be found in churches and public buildings at home and abroad. Cribb's interest in Coleoptera started at least as early as the First World War when he is recorded to have collected in the Somme Valley.
CRENMELL, W.
Lepidoptera and other insects collected by Crenmell mainly in the period 1930-60 are in the Isle of Man Natural History and Antiquarian Society (Hancock and Pettit (1981). (MD 4/02)