Blomer is recorded to have entered the army 6 May 1795 as an Ensign in the 20th Regiment of Foot before joining the 31st in 1802. He was made a Captain in 1807. He served in the Peninsular War and retired on half pay in 1815 when he transferred to the 36th Regiment of Foot. Approximate dates and places of his residence in the UK are: pre 1822, Pembrokeshire; 1822 Ilfracome, then Bideford until 1826; 1826-30 Teignmouth; 1830-34 Clifton, nr Bristol; 1834-35 Carisbrook, Isle of Wight.

He is recorded in Ent.mon.Mag., 64, 1928, 17, as 'well known to British Coleopterists as an energetic and successful collector as well as a generous correspondent'. He lived at Norham and later at Purley, and is best known for his work on the Isle of Wight fauna to which he added at least ten new species. He was a member of the SLENHS and exhibited at meetings.

FES 1909-12, and 1921-27. (MD 10/01)

A Colonel. Published 'Certain rare beetles found in a wasp's nest' in Proceedings Bath Natural History Field Club, 8, 136, the insects being identified for him by W.W. Fowler. and few other articles on entomology including the entries in the VCH of Somerset, 1906.

He was President of the Bath Microscopical Society in 1891.

FES 1885-1919. FLS. (MD 10/01)

Born in London. Received a 'brief and very meagre' education before being sent to learn shoemaking. Not liking this occupation he became a pupil teacher in the British School in Colchester. He soon left this however to take a situation in the Essex House Idiot Asylum under W. Millard. Millard became his staunch friend and on his advice Blatch became one of the first of the 'Evangelists' sent out into the rural districts by Samuel Morley, M.P.. He was first appointed to the village of Burton Joyce, Nottingham, and then moved to Netherbury, Dorset and subsequently to Gislingham, Suffolk.

Little seems to be known about Blandford although he published some forty articles on beetles, particuarly Scolytidae from Japan, Africa, Ceylon, etc.. He also published, with David Sharp, on the weevils of Japan (Trans.EntSoc.Lond., 1889-1896, in four parts). His first article ‘Gyrinus minutus in the South' appeared in Ent.mon.Mag., 25, 1889, 325. He also assisted in the preparation of the supplementary volume of the Library catalogue of the RES published in 1900.

Subscribed to two copies of Denny (1825). He was FRS and FLS and lived at 30 Montague Place, Russell Square, London. (MD 10/01)

Born in Nottingham, the eldest son of W.N.Blair, the engineer to the St. Pancras Borough Council. Educated at Highgate and at Birkbeck College, London University. Joined the Civil Service in 1901 where he served in the offices of the Paymaster General and of the Supreme Court until 1910 when he seized an opportunity to transfer as an Assistant in the Entomological Department of the NHM. He became Deputy Keeper in 1932 and obtained a D.Sc. at the University of London in 1933. During the First World War Blair served with the Seaforth Highlanders and was twice invalided home.

Published nine notes on entomological subjects of which one concerned Coleoptera: ‘Occurrence of Trichius fasciatus near Pontypool' in Zool., 1847, 1676.

FES 1849-1875. (MD 10/01)