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COOPER, Beowulf A.

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One of the founding members of the Amateur Entomologists Society. Published a number of notes on Coleoptera, particularly Elateridae and their larvae, in the EMM. during the period 1945 - 1947. He was attached for most of this time to the Department of Agriculture at the University of Leeds. He susequently joined the National Agricultural Advisory Service at Cambridge. At one time he lived at 'Elater', 27 Spilsby Road, Boston, Lincolnshire. There are specimens of Elateridae collected by him in the general collection at Doncaster Museum and with K.C.Lewis.

COOPER, Abraham

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Born in London the son of a tobacconist and inn keeper. He received almost no financial support from his father from an early age and worked in Astley's Theatre under his uncle Davis, where he was employed in mimic battles and pageants. Spent much of his leisure time making sketches, and in 1809, without any instruction, succeeded in painting a favourite horse belonging to Sir Henry Meux so successfully that it was purchased by the owner. This was the start of an artistic career which eventually led to his being elected Royal Academician in 1820.

COOMBS, C.W.

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Worked at the Pest Infestation Laboratory at Slough. Published a number of articles on Cryptophagus species with Woodroffe including their comprehensive: 'A revision of the British species of Cryptophagus (Herbst)', in Trans.RESL, 106 (6), 1955, 237-282, which introduced two species new to science, eight species new to the British list, and a further eight species which had previously been widely misidentified. These included additions in earlier articles by both authors eg.

COOLING, David A.

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Published 'Records of aquatic Coleoptera from rivers in southern England' in Ent. Gaz., 32, 1981, pp.103-113. At the time he was attached to the Freshwater Biological Association River Laboratory as a contract biologist and the collections he made were deposited there. Subsequently gave up this work to take up a new career in computing. (Information from D.A.C.) (MD 3/02)

COOKE, Matthew

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Born at Bushmills in Northern Ireland. Emigrated to North America in April 1850. In October 1862 took up residence in California where he subsequently became that state's first economic entomologist. His many publications, the most famous of which was Injurious insects of the orchard, vineyard, field, garden, conservatory, household, storehouse, domestic animals, etc. with remedies for their extermination, 1883, include various references to beetles. He died at Sacramento, California. There is an account of Cooke in E.O.Essig, History of Entomology, 1931, pp.581-584.

COOKE, Brian Digby

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Lived at Marple, Cheshire and died in Malaya while on National Service. Member of the Manchester Entomological Society and collected beetles with Eric Hunter, Colin Johnson and Peter Skidmore (see HUNTER, F.A.). Johnson (2004) and Hancock & Pettit (1981) record that a collection made by Cooke of some 2,000 British beetles is in the Manchester Museum, accessioned in 1961. It is accompanied by manuscript notebooks, identification notes/translated keys, and drawings and paintings of Chrysomelidae. There is an obituary by E.H.Fielding in Manchester Entomological Society Proc.

COOKE, Benjamin

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Brother of Nicholas Cooke, the Lepidopterist. Lived at various addresses in Manchester, Southport, etc.. Cooke's interests covered Diptera, Neuroptera, Trichoptera and Hymenoptera in particular, and these were the subject of most his twenty or so published notes. He was interested in beetles too, however, and I have seen foreign specimens collected by him in the W.W.Ellis collection in Liverpool Museum. Cooke’s main collection of Coleoptera, Diptera and minor orders was sold by Stevens on 19 June 1883. It appears to have been purchased by Janson who subsequently sold it to P.

COOKE

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Chalmers-Hunt,J.M. (1976) mentions that Cooke sold a collection of various natural history specimens including Coleoptera at Bullocks on 12 February 1898. (MD 3/02)

CONSTANTINE, W.L.

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Mentioned by Sharpe, W.E.(1908) p.13 as one of the 'students and collectors of Coleoptera belonging perhaps to a somewhat different social order [ie. not working class]... happily still surviving'. Sharp notes that Constantine retained his own collection at this time. He is listed in Ent. Ann., 1857, at 7 St. Andrew Sreet, Blackburn, Lancashire. (MD 3/02)
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