Published 'Notes on the biology of Hylesinus fraxini (Pz.) in EMM, 94, 1958, 245-246. At the time he was working in the Biological Research Institute of the University of Ghana. (MD 3/02)

Published a note with M.A. Hafeez on the external sexual characters of Latheticus oryzae (Waterhouse) in EMM, 99, 1963, 141-144. At the time he was attached to Queen Elizabeth College, University of London. (MD 3/02)

Published 'A History of Lundy Island', with a note on the Coleoptera, in Rep. Devons. Ass. Adv. Sci., 4(2), 1871, 553-611. (MD 3/02)

There are many references to Chant in Stephens (1828-). He was a friend of Samouelle and of Bentley, and with the latter published an 'Entomological Tour in south Devon' in Ent. Mag., 1, 1833, 180-185. In his obituary of Chant in Ent., 4, 1868, 106-107, Edward Newman recorded: ‘Mr Chant and his colleague Mr Bentley were among my first entomological acquaintances; and all the older entomologists now living may be reckoned to have made their entomological debut under these auspices of these veterans of our science...

Born in Chatham where he subsequently worked at the dockyard. Became interested in entomology, primarily Lepidoptera, at an early age and published various notes in the Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer and other periodicals on the local fauna. In 1869 he transferred to the Admiralty, and a year or so later he was one of the founder members of the SLENHS.

The third and youngest son of George Charles Champion. Collected insects as a boy with his brother Harry in the neighborhood of the family home at Horsell, Woking. The close bond which the two brothers shared was broken when Reginald was killed in France during the first World War. British Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera are in the HDO. There are obituaries in EMM., 53, 1917, 215 (by his uncle J.J. Walker) and in Ent. News, 29, 1918, 80. (MD 1/O2)

Born in Edinburgh the eldest son of Major John Carey Champion and Elizabeth, nee Herries, the daughter of William Urquhart of Craigstone Castle, Aberdeenshire. Educated at Sandhurst and gazetted an Ensign in the 95th regiment on 2 August 1831. Embarked on foreign service in 1838 after obtaining the rank of Captain. After a stay in the Ionian Islands, his duties took him to Ceylon and thence, in 1847, to Hongkong. He returned to England in 1850 but left again, for the Crimea, in April 1854. He was wounded at Inkermann on 5 November 1854, gazetted Lieutenant Colonel and C.B.

Eldest son of George Charles Champion. Educated at the Royal Grammar School Guildford and from 1908 at King's College, London University, before going to New College, Oxford, where he graduated with firsts in chemistry and botany. In 1914 he took a diploma in forestry which he subsequently made his profession serving firstly in the Indian Forestry Service (1914-1940) after a year in the USA, and then as Professor of Forestry at Oxford.