Born in Hull. A collection of 2000 plus insects including beetles is mentioned in the Fenscore database. (MD 5/04)

Published a ‘Note on the capture of Coleoptera in Hainault Forest’ together with a ‘Description of Anchomenus picticornis’ in Zoo., 2, 1844, pp.413-414. (MD 5/04)

Amongst a number of articles he published on Lepidoptera are two on beetles: [Lepidoptera and Coleoptera in Norfolk] Trans. Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists Society, 3, 1884, pp.383-385 and ‘Coleoptera in Suffolk’, ERJV., 8, 1896, p.312. (MD 5/04)

There are specimens bearing this name in a small collection of mainly local Lepidoptera and Coleoptera at Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery. (Fenscore). (MD 5/04)

A Doctor. His collection of British beetles was given to Cambridge by L.G.Cox of Brighton on 11 July 1957 and has been included with the general collection. Six note books also formed part of the gift. These include lists of 32,005 beetles taken from 20 March 1904 to 20 July 1935 with dates and localities. For a while Nicholson owned the F.Bates collection before it passed to B.SA.Williams. There are also specimens collected by him in the Bedwell collection at Norwich. (MD 5/04)

A Doctor for many years in Coventry, Isle of Wight and Devon before joining his daughter and son-in-law in South Africa where he became a medical missionary in Zululand. He remained there for some 18 years and built up considerable collections of both Coleoptera and Odonata which he donated to Durban Museum. Newton’s British collections, comprising 4,707 specimens, are housed in the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, purchased from his widow for £20 in 1952 (Information from Steve Lane).

Published 35 articles on the biology and habits of insects including one on Glowworms (J.Proc.LSL., 1837, pp.40-71, reprinted 1856), three on Meloe (Trans.LSL. 1851, pp.297-321, 321-357 and 1853, pp.167-167-183, also published elsewhere from 1845), one on Cryptophagus cellaris (ibid., 1851 p.351 and one on the Strepsiptera (ibid. pp.330-353). Gilbert (1977) mentions obituaries in Proc.LSL, 2, 1854, pp.309-312 and Proc.ESL.,1854, pp.51-53 which I have not seen. (MD 5/04).

Primarily known as a general entomologist and Lepidopterist, who founded a number of entomological journals and wrote several text books. Amongst his numerous publications are several on Coleoptera, particularly foreign Cerambycids and species of Cryptocephalus, from 1835. These include descriptions of new species eg Anchomenus picticornis, Hermerius impar, Toxotus rugipennis Callidium rubeocolle, etc.

An Archdeacon who lived at Witley Vicarage, Godalming and published notes on Coleoptera in the EMM eg ‘Oberea oculata in Wicken Fen’ (35, 1899, p.269) and ‘Coleoptera in Surrey and Cornwall’ (53, 1917, pp.164-65). A collection dating from before 1902 is in a 12 drawer cabinet in Haslemere Museum (information from David Baldock). (MD 5/04)

A brief obituary in Proc.RESL, C, 1, 1937, p. 56 records that he specialised in Coleoptera. FRES 1931-36. (MD 5/04)