SHARP, William Ernest

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Born at Sparkbrook, near Birmingham but moved to Cheshire when he was three and was educated at Birkenhead School. He would have gone to Oxford or Cambridge but was prevented by lack of means and instead joined his father’s business. Apart from entomology Sharp also painted in water-colours. His interest in insects began when he was a boy and he was for many years a member of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. Whilst there he wrote more than 30 notes in various journals many adding species to the Liverpool list.

SHARP, W

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Lived in Surrey and gave a collection of beetles to Aberdeen University in 1910-1911. The University also has some of his ms notes. (MD 11/04)

SHARP, David

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Born at Towcester, the son of a leather merchant, but spent his early years at Stoney Stratford in Buckinghamshire. Moved at the age of eleven to London where he joined St John’s Foundation School, Kilburn. After leaving school he had a brief flirtation with the business world before entering St Bartholomew’s Hospital in 1862. He remained there until 1864 when he transferred to Edinburgh taking his degree in 1866. After qualifying, he moved back to London for a short period before returning in 1867 to join the Crichton Institution at Dumfries.

SELOUS, Cuthbert Fennessy

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Medical Doctor. Published ‘Notes on some Coleoptera found at Barton-on-Sea, Hampshire’ in EMM., 46, 1910, pp.6-8 and ‘A note on the distribution of Bembidium saxatile var. vectensis’, ibid., p.214. He was helped in his determinations by E.A.Newbury. Insects collected by him in Matabeleland in 1906 are in the HDO (Smith (1986) p.149). There is an obituary in Proc.,RESL., 24(C), 1959-60, p.54. (MD 11/04)

SCOTT, John

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Well known for his work on Hemiptera but also took an interest in Lepidoptera and Coleoptera of which he formed a good collection. Born in Morpeth. Few details of his early life appear to be known but his obituaries indicate that he was early forced to fend for himself and that by 1849 he was employed as a civil engineer in Glasgow. Shortly after he moved to Stockton-on-Tees, and by 1859 to London where he worked for a firm of metal brokers. After the outbreak of the American Civil War he became Secretary to a Marine Insurance Society.

SCOTT, Hugh

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Educated at Cambridge where he studied Classics in which he obtained a first in 1906. His obituaries mention that he came under the influence of David Sharp at this time and he was certainly sufficiently interested in entomology to become a member of the Percy Sladen Trust expedition which investigated the terrestrial fauna of the Seychelles in 1908. On his return he succeeded Sharp as Curator of the Cambridge Insect collections a post which he held until 1928 when he left Cambridge to take up the position of entomologist to the Department of Agriculture, Baghdad.

SCOTT, C.E.

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Andy Salisbury tells me that there are 10 specimens of Carabidae, mostly with unreadable data, bearing this name or the initials CES in the collection of the RHS. (MD 1/07)

SAVAGE, T.S.

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There are insects, and letters to Hope 1840-48 and to Westwood 1844-48 containing ‘much information’ concerning them, in the HDO (Smith (1986) pp.87, 148). (MD 11/04)

SAUNT, John William

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Primarily known for his work on sawflies but his obituary in EMM., 95, 1959, p.72 mentions that he collected beetles imported in the wood he used as a car body builder at Coventry, and he also contributed a number of notes to the EMM. After his retirement from work, he moved to Cowes on the Isle of Wight. His insect collections were presented to the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry. There are specimens dated 1947 from the Isle of Wight bearing this name in the general collection at Doncaster, acquired as part of the Gilmour collection.Pedersen (2002) pp.

SAUNDERS, Sir Si(y)dney Smith

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Son of William Saunders of Wandsworth and cousin of William Wilson Saunders (see below). In 1826 he gained an appointment in the Foreign Office and in 1835 was made British Consul in Albania, transferring in 1859 to Alexandria. 5 years later he was made Consul-General in the Ionian Islands a position he held until 1870. He was knighted in 1873. Saunders remained interested in insects throughout his life and was correcting a paper for the ESL at the time of his death.