Mentioned in Sharp (1908) p.13 as an artisan of Manchester who was an energetic Coleopterist. Johnson (2009) suggests that he may have been born in Salford.Published seven notes in EMM between 1868 and 1873 mainly recording finds in the Manchester area. Morley’s name appears in the Gorham diary in Birmingham Museum and in the Janson diary at Cambridge (eg, June 1869). His collection was purchased by the Manchester Museum in 1904 via A.Reston and has been incorporated into the general collection. Johnson (2004) records that it consists of several thousand specimens.

Born in Blackheath and educated at Beccles, King’s School, Peterborough and Epsom College. After spending much time on the Isle of Wight where his father had a house at Cowes, he moved in about 1892 to Ipswich and studied under John E,Taylor, Curator of the Museum there. After marrying in 1904 he settled in Monks Soham where he remained until his death. He is recorded to have been highly individualistic and to have had a hatred of modern progress so that he would not permit a radio, telephone, electricity into his house nor would he accept ‘summer time’.

Born in Halifax, the daughter of a Welsh father and English mother. Went to Liverpool University in 1939 where she took a degree in Zoology. After graduating she took a teaching certificate in 1944 and then taught at a grammar school in the Isle of Man before marrying her cousin, a merchant navy seaman. Subsequently did an MSc. on midges before moving with her three children to north Wales where in 1957 she began teaching in the Department of Agricultural and Forest Zoology at the University College of North Wales, Bangor.

This name appears on specimens in the Butler collection of foreign Coleoptera at Norwich (information from Tony Irwin) also on Coleoptera in the Hall collection at Oldham (information from Simon Hayhow). (MD 2/04)

K.G.Blair, Coleoptera of the Isles of Scilly, 1931 refers to Moore as a collector who had worked on Tresco. (MD 2/04)

Known as ‘the father of Indian Lepidopterists’. FBI series on beetles indicates that he occasionally collected them too. Gilbert (1966) lists eleven obituary and other notices. (MD 2/04)

Lott (2009) notes that Moore gave some Leicestershire beetles, and many more from Hastings, to Frederick Bates in 1849 ‘and it is possible he was a Sussex Coleopterist who visited...’ (MD 11/09)

A Doctor. A small collection of beetles made by Moore between 1830-1865 is in Leeds City Museum. (Fenscore). (MD 2/04)

Published ‘A day’s beetle collecting on Schehallion’, Zool. 21, 1863, p.8412. (MD 2/04)

[Andrew entry is re-written]Portsmouth Coleopterist whose name appears on a ms (28pp) belonging to Darren Mann listing his collection.(I am grateful to Darren for providing me with a copy) Drawer numbers (up to 14), species names and numbers of specimens are given, and many rarities are included. It appears to be particularly rich in the smaller species. The name Moncrieff also appears on Coleoptera in the Hall collection at Oldham (Information from Simon Hayhow).