A Reverend. Mentioned by Frank Bouskell in Entomologist's Rec.J.Var., 15, 1903, 288 as collecting Coleoptera with him ‘in a wood in the Market Bosworth district of Leicestershire.’ (MD 10/01)

Eldest son of Captain H.H. Bird of Little Waltham Hall, Essex and his wife Eliza Sophia (nee Master). Although Bird inherited his father’s large estate in Essex, he preferred to live in Norfolk where his father had bought Burnely Hall, West Somerton and hired Kelling Hall. Bird was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and in 1887 married Kate Bonner, daughter of Henry Calthorpe Bonner of the Manor House, East Rudham. They had two sons and two daughters.

A Doctor of Medicine. Read a paper on beetles of the Bath District to the Bath Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club on 14 March 1884 at which time he also showed a collection: ‘as, however, the correctness of some of the names is doubtful, and there are many specimens not named at all’, it was not thought by the compilers of the Club’s Transactions to be worthy of publication. (V, 1884, 227) Bird was an Honorary member of the Club. (MD 10/01)

A Reverend. Recorded to have been one of the first members of the Entomological Society to give insects. Published three articles on insects, of which one 'Capture of insects at Burchfield', Ent.Mag., 2, 1835, 39-43, included a list of twenty six beetles ‘not quite common’ from the neighbourhood. At the time he states that he had lived at Burghfield Hill House, Burghfield, nr. Reading 'for about ten years' and that he had 'employed my leisure hours in making an entomological collection.

Best known as a Lepidopterist. His father was an important businessman in Leeds and he was educated there and at the Friends School, York, where his fellow students included Benjamin and Nicholas Cooke, and several others who were to become well-known naturalists. He became a partner in his father's firm and then joined Pickfords as their agent firstly in Dublin, and later in Liverpool. Subsequently he started in business on his own account in Bradford , but soon gave up and moved via Leeds to the Isle of Man where he settled.

Published a single note in Ent.Weekly Int., 6, 5, ‘Biphyllus lunatus - This has reappeared in its old haunt, and I should have much pleasure in sending living specimens to any entomologist forwarding me a stamped envelope. I do not collect Coleoptera, therefore require no return.' He gives his address as Newnham, Gloucestershire. (MD 10/01)

Well known Hymenopterist who was an editor of the FBI series. He was attached to the Bengal Staff Corps as a Lt. Colonel, and held the post of Conservator of Forests in Burma until 1894. While in Burma he did collect some Coleoptera as Fowler, (1912) records. After leaving Burma he settled in Kensington, London and was a 'familiar figure in the Insect Room of the Natural History Museum' where he worked primarily on Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera..

Published his first article on 'Carabus auratus L. in the Borough Market, London’ in Ent.mon.Mag., 16, 1879, 51, but the majority of the one hundred or so entomological notes which followed this were on Hymenoptera, Orthoptera, Diptera and Hemiptera. He lived at 20 Swiss Villas, Copleston Road, Peckham. There are obituaries in Ent., 53, 1920, 72 and Ent.mon.Mag., 56, 1920, 66.

FESL 1879-1902, Council 1884-1886. (MD 10/01)

Primarily a parasitic Hymenopterist but also collected other insects including beetles. He was closely associated with the young J.H.Keys and his father, and like JHK was a keen microscopist/micro-photographer. His obituary by J.H. Keys in Ent.mon.Mag, 46, 1910, 94-95, mentions that on a trip to Corsica, with his friend T.A. Marshall, his wife found ‘the unique Anthribid which is now the type of a new genus and species Spathorrhamphus corsicus.’