Born and died in Hastings. His father was Henry Edward Bennett, a pork butcher in George Street, and when he died William Henry took over the business at an early age. He remained in this profession throughout his working life.

Collected Rutelinae in Darjeeling, India. (Arrow, G.J., FBI, Rutelinae, 1917, references around p.230) (MD 10/01)

A Reverend at Pyrton. Smith (1986) notices two species of Buprestidae caught by him in Champion Bay, Australia in 1889, in the HDO, together with a collection of Lepidoptera. He was related to G.V.Bell who collected insects of various orders in Malaya which are also now in the HDO (presented by Mrs Bell in 1920). (MD 10/01)

Published the capture of six specimens of Aderus brevicornis Perris at Heathfield, Sussex in Ent.mon.Mag., 34, 1898, 279. These are now lost and A.A. Allen wrote a note to the same periodical (96, 1960, 48) asking for any information about them. Was Beevor related perhaps to A. Beevor of Horningham who is listed as a subscriber to H. Denny, Pselaphidarum et Scydmaenidarum Britanniae, 1825? (MD 10/01)

Attached to the Forestry Research Institute at Dehra Dun, India. Arrow, G.J., FBI, Rutelinae, 1917, mentions beetles collected by him, and there are specimens in the Pusa Institute, Delhi which bear his name and the date 1919. (MD 10/01)

Born at Carlton Colville and educated at North Walsham Grammar School. He was for many years on the surveying staff of Messers Farebrother, Ellis and Co. where he was always known as 'Mr Bugs', and from which he retired in 1939.

Stephens (1828-1831) 1, 38, records that a specimen from Beckwith's collection was in that of J. Vigors. Is this perhaps the J. Beckwith whose drawing on vellum in pen and coloured inks of moths dated 1788 is in the RES? (Pedersen (2002), 153). (MD 10/01, 11/09)

Published 'Mice and Beetles' in Nature, 20, 1879, 29. (MD 10/01)

Born at Honley, near Huddersfield. Educated at Storthes Hall under the tutorship of Peter Inchbald, a well-known entomologist of the time. It was here that Beaumont met J.W. Dunning and T.H. Allis, who were fellow pupils, and all three, enthused by Inchbald, retained an interest in entomology throughout their lives. It may have been at Storthes that Beaumont first met H.T. Stainton, the Lepidopterist, who also became a close acquaintance. On leaving school Beaumont joined his father's large woollen manufacturing business of which he later became the head.