CHILDREN, John Children

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The only son of George Children, a banker and wealthy landed property owner. Educated at Tonbridge Grammar School, Eton and Queen's College, Cambridge. He intended to join the church, but after marrying at the age of 21, Anna Holroyd who died shortly after, he abandoned this career, and travelled to Portugal and then to Canada and the United States of America. He returned to become a Captain in the West Kent Militia, but gave this up in 1805 as a result of ill health. Having studied mechanics, mineralogy and electricity at Cambridge, he then took up scientific pursuits becoming FRS in 1807.

CHEVRIER, Frederic

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Not British and strictly speaking therefore should not be included, but deserves mention because his collection in Liverpool Museum is one of the oldest intact collections of beetles in the country. It contains about 6,000 specimens collected in Southern Europe c.1825-1849 and is housed in what appears to be a home-made cabinet of twenty two drawers. The material is not British but does include types. According to correspondence in the Liverpool Museum with the Museum of Natural History in Geneva, Chevrier lived on Lake Geneva and sold the collection to the Liverpool Institution in 1849.

CHEESMAN, Lucy Evelyn

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Born at Westwell, near Ashford, Kent. Educated at a private school where she learned French and German. Enjoyed the study of natural history as a child and after failing to gain entrance to the London Veterinary College because she was a woman, she became a canine nurse. During the First World War she worked as a temporary Civil Servant with the Admiralty. After the War she came into contact with Grace Lefroy, through whose husband Maxwell she acquired the post of Curator of Insects at the Zoological Society of London, a post which she held from 1920-1926.

CHASTER, George William

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A Doctor who practised for most of his professional life at Southport where he was one of the founders of the Southport Natural Science Society and editor of their Proceedings. His natural history interests included the Foraminifera, on which he published many papers of the local fauna, the mollusca and the Coleoptera. He died at the early age of 47 from pleuro-pneumonia.

CHAPPELL, Joseph

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Mechanic in Sir Joseph Whitworth's works at Manchester where he lived most of his life. It is not known when he first acquired his interest in entomology b ut this must have been some time before 1865 when he published his first articles, on Lepidoptera and on Cryptocephalus bipustulatus in the EMM.. In preparing the latter he was helped by E.C. Rye. These were the first of some twenty six or so articles on the Lepidoptera and Coleoptera mainly of the Manchester district. Chappell's activities were severely restricted by the amputation of a leg in about 1884.

CHAPMAN, Thomas Algernon

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Born in Glasgow the son of Algernon Chapman (see above). Took a degree in medicine at Glasgow University. Worked as a demonstrator for Lord Lister for one year before moving to Abergavenny. Subsequently pursued his medical career there, and at Hereford where he was Superintendent of the Burghill Lunatic Asylum. Wishing to be nearer to London so as to be able to attend the meetings of the various societies of which he was a member, Chapman retired in the early 1890s to Reigate where he lived for almost thirty years before his death in 1921.

CHAPMAN, Thomas

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Born at Nottingham but quickly moved to Glasgow where he gave up a career in medicine to become a businessman. Remained there for forty years until ill health forced his retirement early in 1879 when he moved to Burghill, Hereford to join his son Thomas Algernon (see below). It was here that he died.