Born in Marlborough, Wiltshire. Educated at Aldenham School and/or Mill Hill School and at Cambridge University. Emigrated to Australia to take up the position of Second Mathematical Master at Sydney Grammar School in 1881. He remained in this position until 1891 when he was appointed Principal of Ascham College in which post he continued until 1914.

Pedersen (2002), 92 records a letter from G.T. Porritt to Sheldon concerning Carter’s death, dated 9 April 1921,  in the RESL. (MD 1/22)

Formed a collection of 1,916 Coleoptera which were given by J.E. Collin to the RSM in 1925 (accession number 1925.103). Carter lived at Hillgarth, Currie, Scotland. (MD 1/O2)

Born in Cambridge and educated at Emmanuel College. Shortly after obtaining his degree moved to Nottingham where he was attached to the University College for seven years as Lecturer in Natural Sciences and for thirty four years as Professor of Biology. At the same time as carrying out his duties at the College, he also acted as Director of the Nottingham Natural History Museum, and during the forty five years he held this post he was responsible for building up the collections and establishing the Museum's reputation.

Published ‘Emus hirtus L. at Sittingbourne, Kent’ in EMM, 32, 1896, 160. (MD 1/O2)

Published a number of notes about insects including beetles in the Technical Repository, 1829. These included 'On the injuries caused by weevils and other insects' (12-19); 'On Death Watches, Stomoxys calcitrans and other insects' (80-87); and 'On the Cock-chafer, the Rose-chafer, some spiders and the Aphides' (335-344). (MD 1/O2)

Born in London and educated at first privately, but afterwards at King's College and at London University. Failing to find a post in the natural sciences he spent four years in an engineer's office before becoming a clerk in the South Kensington Museum. At the age of twenty three, having already spent a considerable amount of time working on the natural history of Ireland, he was appointed Assistant Naturalist at the Museun of Science and Art, Dublin.

Not a Coleopterist, of course, but he did publish 'The Beetle' in Works, 1858, 355-356! (MD 1/O2)

Born in Edinburgh and educated at Solihull School, King Edward's Grammar School, Birmingham, and Birmingham University where his father, a keen amateur Lepidopterist, was Regius Professor of Physiology. Carlier read medicine but never graduated. Although he was a delicate child he passed A.1 into the Royal Warwickshire Regiment as a Second Lieutenant during the First World War. Later in life he was a part-time lecturer in entomology in the Extra-Mural Department of Birmingham University Among his interests apart from entomology were philately, cut crystal glass and poetry.