Published two books which include beetles: The Question concerning the Sensibility, Intelligence and instinctive Actions of Insects, Paris, 1837 and Insect Life, 1845. In the latter he describes himself as ‘Late Radcliffe Travelling Fellow of the University of Oxford, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London and Member of the Entomological Society of France.’ (MD 9/01)

Collected Platyrhopalopus badgleyi in Assam which W.W. Fowler named after him. He served as a colonel in the army. (MD 9/01)

Various references in Stephens (1828-1831) eg. 1, 56. (MD 9/01)

Born at Ludlow, Shropshire, the son of Joseph Babington (1768-1826), a physician. Educated at Charterhouse and at Cambridge where he obtained B.A.(1830), M.A.(1833) and first became interested in plants, the study of which eventually led him to become Professor of Botany at Cambridge from 1861-1895.

Tony Irwin informs me that there are a number of insects bearing the initials C.G.B. in E.A. Butler’s foreign collection of Coleoptera and Hemiptera at Norwich Museum. (MD 10/03)

Coleoptera from Scotland bearing this name and the date 1875 are in the collection of C.G. Hall at Oldham Museum. (Information from S. Hayhow) (MD 7.01)

Born in Oldham and educated at Hulme Grammar School which he left at the age of 16. Acquired his interest in insects at the age of ten and joined the Oldham Natural History Society in his youth. His first job was in the carpet department at Ryland’s Warehouse, Manchester. In his lunch hours he visited the Manchester Museum where he befriended Harry Britten who became an important influence on him. Joined the Manchester Entomological Society in 1932 and was a regular exhibitor at meetings.

Had an extensive knowledge of the Lepidoptera and took up Coleoptera in his later years, eventually amassing fine representative collection of both these orders. He was particularly associated with the SLENHS which he joined in 1931 and on the Council of which he served from 1941. S. Wakely, in an obituary in Proc.Trans.S.Lond.ent.nsat.Hist.Soc., 1942, 43, noticed that he was a regular exhibitor at meetings and that the field trips he led to South Benfleet, where his parents lived, were especially memorable occasions’.

Published a note on 'Strangalia aurulenta P. in Devonshire' in Ent.mon.Mag., 41, 1905, 69, and a further note on 'Amara anthobia Villa in the London district', 42, 1906, 13. Immediately after the War he moved to St. Leonards and published on Odonata in Ent. The late Mrs Morgan wrote to me about Attlee as follows: ‘When I was preparing my paper on the Coleoptera of Merioneth... I was sent some correspondence between Attlee and P.M.Miles of Aberystwyth. The former was then living at 4 Combermere Road, St.

A pharmacist by profession, Atmore was born in Kings Lynn and lived there all his life. He had a considerable knowledge of all orders but was particularly interested in the Coleoptera, Hymenoptera and Diptera of which he had extensive local collections. He also donated specimens to the Museum at Kings Lynn. Atmore published various articles in the Trans. of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists Soc. of which he was made an Honorary Life Member shortly before his death, and two notices in the EMM, 40, 1904, 85 and 238, recording the capture of Tetropium castaneum L.