Not British by birth but he is included because he lived in England for the last 22 years of his life (becoming naturalized in 1947), and although employed as a professional Dipterist, he was always more interested in beetles than flies. He was born in Amsterdam but moved to Germany two years later and from 1918-22 studied natural history at the University of Leipzig eventually obtaining the degree of Doctor of Philosophy there.

Gave more than 250 coleoptera, including larvae, from Germany, Java and Turkestan to the NHM in 10 lots in 1936-1937. (MD 12/04)

General naturalist who published widely and lived for most of his life in Lewes, Sussex. He took up the study of insects later in life between botany and mosses. His interest in Coleoptera is revealed in several notes on the rarer species he had observed in the southern part of Sussex in Morris Naturalist, 8, 1858 pp.18-20, 39-41, 91-93, 158-160, 208-210, 255-57, 276. There are obituaries in East Sussex News, 29 April 1887 and . EMM., 24, 1887, p.47. (MD 12/04)

Born in Paris of Danish parents but moved with his family to England at the outbreak of war in 1914. Educated in London and at Pannal Ash College, Harrogate. At the age of 14 contracted TB and spent the next 7 years at sanatoria in Belgium and Switzerland. On returning to England he taught in preparatory schools at Goatland, Harpenden and Honiton, before marrying in 1943 and moving north to the Holmes Chapel and Sandbach area of Cheshire where he taught at the Terra Nova school.

Published ‘Winter captures of Coleoptera’ in EWI., 8, 1860, p.11. (MD 12/04)

A Reverend. Published 8 notes on Curculionidae in EMM.,1865-1873. Foreign insects and a collection of Coleoptera, mainly Curculionidae, were given by his wife to the HDO in 1875. (Smith (1986) p.155 and plate 17 which reproduces a note pasted to the door of his insect cabinet). (MD 12/04)

The famous Lepidopterist. His ‘Migration and Dispersal of Insects: Coleoptera’ in ERJV,13, 1901, 353-58, is simply a series of quotations from articles and notes by Coleopterists. (MD 12/04)

A Doctor. Mentioned by Stephens (1828) p.47. (MD 12/04)

Member of Parliament for Manchester from 1857-65. His interest in Coleoptera centred on the Cetoniidae of which he is said to have built up a collection which was almost unrivalled (EMM, 4, 1867, p.141). Sold Coleoptera at Stevens on 25 March 1862 and a collection of exotic Coleoptera made by him was sold at the same auctioneers on 11 February 1881. His Elateridae passed via E.W.Janson and Godman and Salvin to the NHM.