BARTINDALE, Guy William Roberts

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Born at Chester, the son of Guy Cecil Bartindale (see above) and lived in Macclesfield opposite the school where his father taught. Went up to Balliol College Oxford (his father’s old College) where he read chemistry graduating with a BA in 1939. After a spell of work, and at Leeds University as a research chemist, he returned to Oxford for a D. Phil. awarded in 1949. Moved to Manchester University in 1948 as Assistant Lecturer, then Lecturer, in Physical Chemistry at the College of Technology (UMIST) where he remained until retirement in 1982.

BARTINDALE, Guy Cecil and G.W.R.

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Father and son. Lived at 16 Lostock Avenue, Poynton, Cheshire and before that at 156 Cumberland Street, Macclesfield, Cheshire. They are best known for their joint article 'The Coleoptera of the Macclesfield District' in EMM, 84, 1948, 130-138. In this they recorded that they had started collecting beetles in the neighbourhood of Macclesfield in about 1932 and by 1948 had taken over 950 species. Most of their determinations were made by H. Britten (but see below). A supplement to the list was published in Ent.mon.Mag., 86, 1950, 121-3, and in the same volume G.W.R.

BARROW, William H.

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A doctor and teacher of music who lived in Leicestershire. Lott (2009), 27, notes that he first appears in the reports of the entomology section of the Leicestershire Literary and Philosophical Society in 1902 when he ‘gave a fine exhibition of microscope slides illustrating various points in the anatomy of the order Coleoptera’ and remained active in the county until 1945. He was acquainted with the father of W. Hunt, a Barnstable Coleopterist who was also a music teacher, and with S.O. Taylor, the Leicester Coleopterist and organ builder. On Barrow’s collection see TAYLOR, S.O.

BARROW, W. Hubert

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A Leicester based taxidermist and dealer. Should not be confused with William H. Barrow the Leicestershire Coleopterist (see below). Listed in Hancock & Pettitt (1979) as a dealer. Several hundred insects collected by him in 1960, mainly from Europe but especially from Hyeres, in France, are in Liverpool Museum. Manuscript material relating to this collection was promised but never sent. (MD 9/01, 11/09)

BARRON, Charles

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Listed in Ent. Ann. 1860, 3 as interested in British Coleoptera, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera. He was attached to the Museum of the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, Gosport. Chalmers-Hunt (1976) records that a collection of birds and mammals made by him were sold by Stevens on 12 June 1895. (MD 9/01)

BARRINGTON, Miss J.

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Published two notes in Ent.mon.Mag., 59, 1923, 91: 'Agabus brunneus Fab. in Dorset' and 'Notonecta Lalophila Edw. in Cambridgeshire', and ‘Some notes on the aquatic Coleoptera of Somerset', ibid, 63, 1927,174-180. (MD 9/01)

BARRETT, Cyril J.

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Published 'New records of Coleoptera from Offaly (Kings County)' in Ent.mon.Mag., 78, 1942, 42-43 when a student at Tullabeg College, Tullamore, Kings Co. Ireland. Most of his specimens were identified by E. O'Mahoney who also verified his new county records. (MD 9/01)

BARON, F.H

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Hancock & Pettitt (1981) list a F.H. Baron as follows: 'Coleoptera + Lepidoptera. Ceylon. Information from list at Monkswood (I.T.E.). Kendal. NW 1223'. (MD 9/01)