Born in Holborn where his father was a theological bookseller. From the age of ten collected insects in Highgate Woods and on Hampstead Heath. Became interested in chemistry and would have taken this up as a profession had he not become ill with tuberculosis following the death of his father. Subsequently he was nursed back to health by his mother. During this time he took up the violin and played with the Strand Theatre orchestra. In 1885 he was appointed Registrar of Marriages in the St. George’s District, a position he held for 28 years.

Brother of Basil George Nevinson (see above). Born at Leicester and educated at Shrewsbury School . Had a wide ranging interest in natural history. In entomology he studied firstly Lepidoptera and then Coleoptera, Neuroptera and Hymenoptera. Some time in the 1890s he bought a strip of Wicken Fen which he transferred to the National Trust shortly before his death. Sold a collection of birds, Lepidoptera and Coleoptera at Stevens on 31 May and 1 June 1927.

Brother of Edward Bonney Nevinson (see below). Born at Leicester and educated at Shrewsbury School and Exeter College, Oxford. Became a barrister. In his obituary in EMM., 46, 1910, pp.93-94, W.W.Fowler recorded that: ‘he was most interested in the Lamellicornia, especially the genus Phanaeus, of which he published a ‘Revised Synonymic List’ in 1892, and had nearly completed a Monograph; his series of the very rare genus Plusiotis is almost, if not quite, unrivalled.

Well known entomologist who worked particularly in Africa on tsetse and other blood-sucking flies. There are beetles collected by Neave in the Bedwell collection at Norwich (information from Tony Irwin). (MD 5/04)

Hancock and Pettitt (1981) note that he was first President of the Accrington Naturalists Society and formed a collection of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera which passed into the hands of T. Altham of Bashall Hall. They refer to a reference in Lancs. Nat., 3, pp.339-341which I have not seen. (MD 5/04)

There are beetles collected by Nathan in India in Oldham Museum (information from Simon Hayhow). (MD 5/04)

A Captain in the army. There are 315 Coleoptera which he collected chiefly in Southern Russia in the RSM (1909-76). (MD 5/04)

This name appears on Coleoptera in the H.Willoughby Ellis collection at York Museum (information from Mike Denton). (MD 2/04)

Born in Carlisle and worked on the Coleoptera there (together with insects of other orders) often in conjunction with F.H.Day who wrote his obituary in EMM., 78, 1942, p.120. Later he moved to Gretna in Dumfries where he continued to collect and where he died. Day noted that he was a very careful and methodical worker who submitted most of his captures to others for naming. Published many notes in the EMM and other periodicals beginning with ‘Bembidium schuppeli in Cumberland’ in Nat. London, 1899, p.288.

Born in Edinburgh and educated for the law. Appointed Writer to the Signet. Tiring of the legal profession he moved in 1860 to London where he was appointed Assistant Secretary to the Royal Horticultural Society. He remained with the Society, taking a particular interest in the Coniferae on which he published many papers, and at the time of his death was its Scientific Director. In character and appearance Murray was described as a ‘strikingly original... somewhat uncouth figure’ (EMM., 14, 1878, pp.215-16).