QUIRKE, Denis A.
Published ‘Eccoptogaster scolytus in Ireland’ in EMM., 79, 1943, p.198. (MD 9/04)
QUILTER, H.E.
Published some observations on Calosoma inquisitor and, later,'The metamorphoses of Galeruca nymphaea' in Ent., 20, 1887, pp. 178-181. Lott (2009) p.14 records that his name appears on a specimen in the Leicester Museum collected in 1908. Is this perhaps the H.J. Quilter whose collection of insects is in the Buckinghamshire County Museum in 30 drawers? (MD 9/04,11/09)
PRYER, H.
Mentioned in the Janson diary at Cambridge eg. June 1867 when he was collecting in Shirley Wood. Also February and April 1868. (MD 9/04)
PRICE, Arthur
Published 'An Interim Report on the Water Beetles of Reading' in Reading Naturalist, 10, 1958. A collection of water beetles (amounting to some 100 specimens) from Carmarthenshire dating from 1957-59 was given by Price to the NMW. There is correspondence between Arthur Price and D.J.Jacksojn in the RESL (Pedersen (2002) p.84). (MD 9/04, 11/09)
PRAEGER, R.L.
Published ‘Beetles in the broth’ in IN., 12, 1903, p.108. (MD 9/04)
POYTON, H.
37 beetles (in three boxes) collected by Poyton in Lancashire, Yorkshire, Hampshire, Cheshire, Dorset, Derbyshire and Surrey, in the period 1953-1961, are in Stockport Museum (Fenscore). (MD 9/04)
POWER, John Arthur
Born in Market Bosworth and studied classics at Clare College, Cambridge but became a doctor in which profession he ‘was for about forty years one of the best known and most successful medical tutors in London, especially in connection with the examinations for the Indian and Army medical departments’ (EMM, 23, 1886, 45). In 1881 he was disabled by a stroke and went to live in Bedford where he died and is buried.
POTTER, William
Johnson (2004) notices that he lived in Droylesden near Manchester and collected mostly in that area and neighbouring areas of Cheshire and Derbyshire, north Wales and the Builth area. His collection is in Manchester Museum and includes 15,000 specimens, many of which were published by H.Britten in his role as Lancashire and Cheshire recorder. (When I saw the collection in 1979 it was housed in 44 miscellaneous boxes, including Wills cigarette boxes, in round glass- topped pill boxes.
PORTER, Endymion
Published ‘Coleoptera of Upper Lough Erne, Co. Fermanagh’ in IN., 7, 11898, pp.48-49. (MD 9/04)
PORTER, David Alfred
In an obituary in BJENH.,18, 2005, 55-56, Peter Hodge noted that Porter was born in Bridport, Dorset and his education included the local Grammar School there. He moved to Saffron Walden, Essex, in 1959 where he taught several subjects including biology, before taking a teachers training course in Westminster and moving to Stevenage where he taught biology at Barnwell School. Here he set up the school's popular Natural History Society and arranged the basement of his house to hold its collections including insects.