Published the capture of Leptura scutellata, Platypus cylindrus, and Clytus arcuatus in Hainault Forest in 1829 (Ent.mon.Mag., 82, 1, 1833, 211-212. In the note he refers to a Mr Bydder as his 'old friend and instructor in entomology'. Two further notes in the same periodical do not refer to Coleoptera. Lott (2009),10, records that he is mentioned by F. Bates as a collector in Leicestershire in 1849. (MD 10/01,11/09)

Born at Tanfield Lea, Durham, the eldest son of George Bold, a tradesman. Received his early education at the village school. Following his parents removal to Newbottle he attended the Kepier Grammar School at Houghton-le-Spring, where he remained until his parents moved again to Long Benton. He then went to a school in Newcastle where he subsequently joined the business of Thomas Pattinson, a grocer and seedsman.

Educated at University in Canterbury. Bodkin was at one time Government Economic Biologist in British Guiana, and is credited with having done the first serious work on the Coleoptera of that country since Richard Schomburgh in 1848. He published 'Notes on the Coleoptera of British Guiana' in Ent.mon.Mag., 55, 1919, 210-219; 264-272. FZS. FLS. FES 1912-1921. (MD 10/01)

Listed in Ent.Ann, 1860, 5, as interested in British Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. His address is given as Bridge Road, Hammersmith, W. (MD 10/01)

There are specimens bearing this name in the collection of K.C. Lewis. (MD 12/06)