Finnish by birth but included here because he lived in Stockport for much of his later life when he was head of the Entomology Department at Flatters and Garnett’s laboratory at Fallowfield, Manchester (working with Peter Skidmore, Brian Cooke and Mary Black) and an active member of the Manchester Entomological Society. Skidmore, who was to become a close friend, writing of ‘Some Entomological Recollections of Baron Alexis de Porochin (1918-1980)’ in The Coleopterist, 12, 2003, pp.

Mentioned in Gimingham (1955) as a collector in the Cheshunt area of Hertfordshire in the period around 1907. Poole’s collection was purchased by the HDO for £12 in June 1912. 30 water beetles collected between 1908-1911 in the Portsmouth area are in the collection of Coleoptera from St. Andrews College acquired by Glasgow Museum in 1985. (I am grateful to Geoff Hancock for this information). (MD 9/04)

There are beetles bearing this name in the Dyson Perrins collection at Birmingham Museum. A reference in Perrins’ card catalogue refers to Pollard being in the British Museum. (MD 9/04)

Published three articles on the colours of Coleoptera elytra between 1873 and 1882 in Pharm, Journ. London and Journ. Micr. Nat Sci. (MD 9/04)

Brother of Francis Plant (see above). Lott (2009) p.10 records that he was a collector in Leicestershire in the period 1844-48. Published ‘On the comparative numbers of Coleoptera affecting Meadow Lands’ in Zool. 2, 1844, p.475, and ‘A beetle of Good Omen from Yucatan’ in Proc. Lit. Phil. Soc. Manchester, 15, 1876, pp.180-181. (MD 9/04)

Leicestershire bookbinder who was the younger brother of John Plant. Lott (2009) states ‘He is first mentioned in 1854 as a collecting companion of Frederick Bates, but it is not known when he started collecting, nor when he was born. He was probably one of the ‘brothers Plant’ mentioned as present at Henry Bates’s farewell party at Bradgate Park in 1848, and it is tempting to speculate that he could have been the ‘young entomologist’ who provided Kirby with records of Donacia from Misterton in 1845 although there is no direct evidence for this.

Published several articles on Carabidae and two more general articles: ‘Coleoptera at Mablethorpe’ (EMM., 19, 1882, p.161) and ‘Coleoptera in Thanet’ (ibid., 22, 1885, p.89). (MD 9/04)

Published ‘On the economy of the Strepsiptera, with the description of Stylops spencii, a new British species recently discovered’ in Trans.ESL, 1, 1836, pp.163-68. (MD 9/04)

Educationalist who was the second son of Octavius Pickard-Cambridge the well known arachnologist and Rectoir of Bloxworth, Dorset. A collection of insects made by him and his father is in the HDO. Smith (1986), p.141 describes it as including a wide variety of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. A brief obituary by N.D.Riley in Proc.RESL, (C) 17, 1953, p.73 states that his interest in entomology was ‘life long’. FRES from 1917. (MD 9/04)