Chalmers-Hunt (1976) records that a collection of duplicate insects from South Africa including Coleoptera was sold by Cregoe at Stevens's rooms on 24 August 1897. A further collection of 3,788 insects of all orders from Natal and Transvaal was presented to the NHM in 1905 (Riley (1964) p.28). (MD 4/02)

A Captain. Presented 235 insects from Tierra del Fuego to NHM in 1906 (Riley, 1964, p.29). (MD 2/02)

A Reverend. Smith (1986) records a collection in the HDO of British Coleoptera, including local and rare species (1905). Hancock and Pettit (1981) record that specimens collected by Crawshay are in the John Kidson Taylor Collection at Manchester. A letter from Crawshay to W.E.Sharp, dated 8 August 1905, is in volume III (48) of the Sharp correspondence at Liverpool. (MD 4/02)

For much of his life Crawford was interested primarily in the Lepidoptera, but after his retirement from the Indian Civil Service in 1919 he settled in Belfast and became interested in beetles. He published more than fifty new county records for Ireland in the EMM between 1932 and 1937, and eighteen other articles in the INJ and Proc. Belfast Nat.Field Club (listed in Ryan, O'Conner and Beirne (1984) pp.56-58). He interested himself in water beetles in particular and was one of the editors of the IN. FRES from 1922.

Born in Ayr but emigrated to California in 1873. After spending two years at San Diego, he moved to Los Angeles to take charge of the large orange grove founded by J.W.Wolfskill. He soon became a recognized authority on horticultural and entomological subjects and he founded the plant quarantine service in California. In 1904 he moved to Hawaii as Superintendent of Entomology and Inspector of the Hawaiian Board of Agriculture and Forestry at Honolulu. He died in the USA. Although most of Craw's work was on the Coccoidea, he also interested himself in beetles as pests.

Stephens (1828) pp. 83 and 164 refers to beetles collected by the 'late Mr Cranck'. (MD 4/02)

published on the Natural History of the Vale of Belvoir in John Nichols, Bibliotheca Topopgraphia Britannica, VIII, Antiquities in Leicestershire, 1790, includes what must surely be one of the earliest local lists of Coleoptera (pp.1259-1262). This list, which makes specific and general references to more than seventy species (I am grateful to Derek Lott for pointing out that this total may be incorrect.

Qualified in engineering at the Regent Street Polytechnic, London, where he also studied Shakespeare. He began his professional career as an engineer in County Hall and later worked on the railways, but gave this up to become a freelance journalist and entomologist, and to run a philatelic business. His writings covered many subjects, including a serial for the Sunday Express and a weekly piece as Uncle Mac of the Children's Corner, for which he started the Choktok Club.

Smith (1986) records that there is a collection of flies and beetles from Tasmania in the HDO accompanied by a letter to Poulton of 1896. (MD 4/02)