STEVENS, Herbert
Dealer who lived at Tring. Tring Museum gave a collection of Coleoptera from Sikkim made by Stevens to Manchester Museum (Hancock and Pettit (1981)). (MD 11/04)
STEPHENS, James Francis
Born at Shoreham, Sussex, the only son of Captain William James Stephens and Mary Peck (later known as Mrs Dallinger). Educated at the Bluecoat School, Hertford and at Christ’s Hospital, to which he was presented by Shute Barrington, the Bishop of Durham, from 15 May 1800 -16 September 1807, when he was placed by his uncle Admiral Stephens at the Admiralty Office, Somerset House.
STEPHENS, J.A.
.A Captain and keen naturalist who acquired an enthusiastic interest in beetles later in life and collected especially in the Cobham Park district. There is a brief obituary in Proc.RESL 12(C), 1947-48, p.64. (MD 11/04)
STENDALL, J.A.S.
Ryan et. al. (1984) p.88 lists two articles by Stendall in INJ on Tribolium ferrugineum in Belfast’ (7,1938, p.87) and ‘Acanthocinus aedilis in Belfast’ (9, 1947, p.99). (MD 11/04)
STELFOX, Arthur W.
Ryan et. al. (1984) pp.87-88 lists 10 articles by Stelfox on Irish Coleoptera in IN, INJ and EMM between 1924-1931. Three record new species to Ireland. Hancock and Pettit (1981) notice collections of mollusca, fossils and hymenoptera in Manchester and Liverpool Museums. They also cite n obituary in INJ., 1973, pp.285-302 which I have not seen. (MD 11/04)
STEELE, Mary
Collected more than 1000 insects in Burma in the 1930s which she donated to the NHM together with a ms locality and collecting data notebook (Harvey et. al. (1996) p.199). (MD 11/04)
STEEL, William Owen
Attended Minchenden School, Southgate, London from 1929-36. Upon the death of his father, being the eldest son, he had to support his family so took up the post of Medical Laboratory Technician with Middlesex County Council. Shortly before the outbreak of the 2nd World War he joined ICI where he worked on plastics until 1945 when he transferred to the Agricultural Control Section. Here he was able to work with insects in which he had been interested since a boy.
STEBBING
Fowler (1912) records that Stebbing collected Cicindelidae in Northern Assam. (MD 11/04)
STARKEY, J.S.
Published ‘Beetle records from Co. Wicklow’ in IN., 9, 1900, p.108. (MD 11/04)
STANLEY, Edward Smith, 13th Earl of Derby
Eldest son of of Edward, 12th Earl of Derby, by his first wife Lady Elizabeth Hamilton. Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. Became MP for Preston and retained that position until 17 April 1839 when he inherited the Earldom on the death of his father and retired from public life. Stanley had already displayed an early interest in Zoology and now devoted himself to setting up a private menagerie and building up collections at his home at Knowsley, Lancashire. At the same time he contributed many papers to J.LSL of which he had been President from 1828-33.