Coleopterist who specialised in stored product infestations and Cerambycidae. He lived in Birmingham. FRES from 1954. (MD 9/04)

Smith (1986), p.141, mentions that a collection of insects of all orders made by Pemberton in British Central Africa, was presented to the HDO by C.V.A.Peel in 1900. (MD 9/04)

Published ‘Capture of a species of Omias new to Britain’ (EMM., 5, 1868, p.44) and ‘Capture of Strophosomus hirtus’ (ibid., 7, 1870, 37). His collection amounting to some 2,500 specimens collected by himself and others c.1858-1875, was acquired by Bolton Museum as part of the Mason collection. It includes the type of Elater punctolineatus Pelerin J. Associated with it is a MS catalogue of localities and sources. He is mentioned in the Janson diary at Cambridge, eg. September 1867. (MD 9/04)

See Pelerin W.G. below, presumably they were related. (MD 9/04)

Published ‘Broscus cephalotes at Retford’ in Ent., 28, 1895, p.281. (MD 9/04)

Mentioned by Walsh (1956) as a worker on beetles in the Scarborough district. (MD 9/04)

Published ‘On Lamia rubus’ in Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 6, 1837, pp.321-322. (MD 9/04)

Born into a clerical family his father afterwards becoming Bishop of Derby. Educated at Sherborne School where he first became interested in natural history. Attended Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and took a third in the Natural History Tripos in 1924. Became a Deacon in 1932 and was ordained priest in 1933. His first living was at St. Marks, Swindon, but in 1935 he entered the Anglican community at Mirfield, later becoming Prior of St Teilo, Cardiff (1955-58) and Prior of Codrington College, Barbados (1958-68) where he was known as Father Justin.

Fowler (1912) records that he collected Neocollyris species in Assam. (MD 9/04)

Irish zoologist who published four notes on beetles including ‘Note respecting the larvae of Blaps mortisaga’ in Trans.ESL, 2, 1838, pp.99-100, and ‘Coleoptera of the Hollywood District’ (with W.D.Donnan) in IN.,1, 1892, pp.103-04). A ‘List of Irish Coleoptera collected mainly by the late Robert Patterson, esq., FRS, in the year 1829’ was published as appendix to Proc. Belfast. Nat. Field Club, 2, 1885, 9(5), pp.317-326. There is an obituary in Nature, London, 5, 1872, p.332. (MD 9/04)