CLARKE, H.B.
Listed in the Ent. Ann., 1857, as interested in British Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. His address is given as Low Pavement, Nottingham. (MD 2/02)
CLARK, Kenneth John Benjamin
Boyhood friend of Claude Henderson and Donald Tozer who went out collecting with them in Leicestershire. Qualified as a chartered mechanical engineer after joining the British United Shoe Machinery Company as an apprentice straight from school. He was a keen cyclist (both touring and competition) and motor-cyclist. Lott (2009) p.30 states that ‘Clark’s collecting activities dropped off in the 1940s as a result of a rise in family and professional commitments.
CLARK, John
Born in Glasgow. Moved to Australia where he was employed for a time by the Queensland Government Railways. Entered Agricultural Department of Western Australia on 1 October 1920, and was assistant entomologist until he was appointed entomologist to the National Museum, Melbourne, Victoria in 1926., a post which he held for twenty years. Clark worked mainly on ants but his publications did include two articles on myrmecophilous beetles (listed by Musgrave, (1932). There is an obituary by W.L.Brown in Ent. News, 67, 1956,197-199. (MD 2/02)
CLARK, J.T.
Published a number of articles on Lucanus cervus L. in Essex Nat., Trans. Suffolk Nat. Soc., and EMM between 1964 and 1967. These included comprehensive notes on distribution and size variation. Lived at Lessenden, 8 Lexden Road, Colchester, Essex. (MD 2/02)
CLARK, Hamlet
Born in Navenby, Lincolnshire. Became a Reverend. Died at Rhyl in North Wales. Edward Newman, who wrote Clark's obituary in EMM., 4, 1867, pp.43-44, recorded that he was 'Indefatiquable in collecting, possessed of an earnest love for Entomology, and uniting an innate rapidity of perception to a capability of unwearied application ...
CLARK, Eustace F.
Lived at Ufton Rectory, Nr. Southam, Warwickshire. Published 'Capture of Xylotrechus liciatus L. in Warwickshire' in EMM., 14, 1877, pp.140-141. (The specimen, a continental species of Cerambycid, now Rusticoclytus rusticus L.) was found crawling live on the wall of his stables in the third week of August). (MD 3/02)
CLARK, Bracy
A collection of 2,464 insects made by Bracy Clark was found in an antique shop and purchased for the NHM by Dr Easton. It included paintings of insects by Clark pinned into a drawer and specimens from J.G.Children, Forsstroem and, possibly, Dru Drury. Smith, A.Z. (1986) p.71 notes a letter to Westwood, 1842, in the HDO together with a MS list of Oestrus by Westwood. (MD 3/02)
CHURLEY, M.
There are beetles bearing this name in the Hall collection at Oldham Museum (Information from Simon Hayhow) (MD 3/02)
CHRYSTAL, Robert Neil
Published 'An Entomological Tour in Sweden in August 1933' in EMM., 70, 1934, pp.102-107, which includes various references to Coleoptera. He seems to have been a forest entomologist and was at one time attached to the Hope Department at Oxford. He reviewed a book on Forest Entomology in ibid., 76, 1940, p.13. and his own Insects of the British Woodlands, 1937, became a standard text. Pedersen (2002) p.121 lists correspondence with C.J.Wainwright , 1935-36, in the RESL. (MD ?, 11/09)
CHITTY, Arthur John
Eldest son of the Right Hon. Lord Justice Chitty. Educated at Eton, where he became the head of his house and a member of the cricket eleven, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was well known for his sporting prowess. Became a Barrister. Married the daughter of Sir John Croft of Doddington, Kent and had three children. He was for many years Secretary of the All English Lawn Tennis Club, and a keen violinist and astronomer.