Flashcards: British entomologists

Roy Albert Crowson (22 November 1914, Hadlow, Kent – 13 May 1999) was an English biologist who specialised in the taxonomy of beetles.

William Edward Shuckard (1803, Brighton – 10 November 1868, Kennington) was an English bookseller and entomologist.

Wallace Peters (born April 1, 1924) is a British entomologist and parasitologist.

Leonard Doncaster (31 December 1877 – 28 May 1920) was an English geneticist and a lecturer on zoology at both Birmingham University and the University of Liverpool whose research work was largely based on insects.

John Blackwall (20 January 1790 – 11 May 1881) was a British naturalist with a particular interest in spiders.

Major Richard William George Hingston (1887 – 5 August 1966) Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, was a physician, explorer and naturalist.

Augustus Radcliffe Grote (7 February 1841 Liverpool, England – 12 September 1903 Hildesheim, Germany) was a British entomologist who worked mainly in America.

Sir Vincent Brian Wigglesworth CBE FRS (17 April 1899 – 11 February 1994) was a British entomologist who made significant contributions to the field of insect physiology.

The Reverend Andrew Matthews, M.

Robert Walter Campbell Shelford (3 August 1872 – 22 June 1912), was a British entomologist and museum administrator and naturalist, with a special interest in entomology and insect mimicry; he specialised in cockroaches and also did some significant work on stick insects.

Brigadier William Harry Evans C.

Michael Eugene Nicolas Majerus (13 February 1954 – 27 January 2009) was a British geneticist and Professor of Evolution at the University of Cambridge.

Michael Thomas (Mick) Gillies (15 September 1920 – 10 December 1999) was an English medical entomologist.

William Sharp Macleay or McLeay (21 July 1792 – 26 January 1865) was a British civil servant and entomologist.

Dr George Heslop-Harrison FRSE was a British entomologist.

Eha was born at Satara in the Bombay Presidency on August 16, 1851.

John Coakley Lettsom (1744–1815) was an English physician and philanthropist.

John Russell Malloch (16 November 1875 – 1963) was a Scottish entomologist who specialised in Diptera and Hymenoptera.

Frederick Arthur Askew Skuse (c. 1863 – 10 June 1896) was a British-Australian entomologist.

Alice Blanche Balfour (20 October 1850 – 12 June 1936) was a Victorian naturalist and one of the earliest female pioneers in the science of genetics.

Elliot Charles Gordon Pinhey (18 July 1910 Knokke, Brugge – 7 May 1999 Cowfold near Horsham, West Sussex) was an entomologist who worked in Africa and specialised in African Lepidoptera and Odonata.

Erica McAlister is a British scientist and museum curator.

Sir Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall (20 December 1871 in Amritsar, Punjab – 8 April 1959 in London), was an Indian-born British entomologist and authority on Curculionidae.

Leonard Hugh Newman, (3 February 1909 - 23 January 1993) always known as L.

Norman Humbert Joy (7 July 1874 – 20 January 1953) was a British ornithologist and coleopterist.

Dave Goulson (born 1965) FRSE FRES is a British biologist, conservationist, and Professor of Biology (Evolution, Behaviour and Environment) at the University of Sussex.

Eva Crane (12 June 1912 – 6 September 2007) was a researcher and author on the subjects of bees and beekeeping.

Hon. Alexander Macleay (also spelt McLeay) MLC FLS FRS (24 June 1767 – 18 July 1848) was a leading member of the Linnean Society, a fellow of the Royal Society and member of the New South Wales Legislative Council.

Howard Hinton grew up in Mexico and attended the University of California, Berkeley as an undergraduate.

Harold Powell (1875 in The Mumbles – 1954) was a British entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.

Frederick Augustus Dixey FRS (9 December 1855 – 16 January 1935) was president of the Royal Entomological Society of London, and was a distinguished British entomologist.

G.D. Hale Carpenter MBE MA DM FRS (26 October 1882 in Eton, Berkshire – 30 January 1953 in Oxford) was a British entomologist and physician.

George C. McGavin FLS FRGS Hon.

Frank Archibald Sinclair Turk (15 January 1911 – 14 February 1986) was a noted entomologist and adult educationalist.

Colin Gasking Butler OBE FRS (26 October 1913 – 4 January 2016) was a British entomologist who first isolated the pheromone which attracts drones to queen bees.

Gerald Augustus Harold Bedford (May 1891 – 28 January 1938) was a British entomologist of the 20th century, specialized in ticks from South Africa.

Hugh David Loxdale D.

David Gibbs (born 26 November 1958) is a British naturalist.

Buxton was awarded the Linnean Medal, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (1943), and Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (1947).

Adam Hart FRES FRSB born in Brixham, South Devon is an English scientist, author and broadcaster.

Philip Steven Corbet FRSE (21 May 1929 – 13 February 2008) was a British entomologist whose work focused largely on aquatic insects and dragonflies specifically.

Raphael Meldola FRS (19 July 1849 – 16 November 1915) was a British chemist and entomologist.

Maxwell V L Barclay, usually known as Max Barclay, is a British entomologist, and Curator and Collections Manager of Coleoptera and Hemiptera at the Natural History Museum in London.

Lucy Evelyn Cheesman (8 October 1882, Westwood Kent – 15 April 1969, London) was a British entomologist and traveller.

Sir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet (14 January 1860 – 15 October 1936) was a British entomologist.

Perkins was born on 15 November 1866 at Badminton, Gloucestershire and was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, St.

Evelyn Cecil Muschamp d’Assis-Fonseca (1899 – 1993) was a British dipterist.

Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Maitland Emmet MBE (15 July 1908 – 3 March 2001) was an amateur entomologist and a former schoolmaster who taught Latin, English and Ancient Greek.

Rev. Dr. Charles David Badham MD, FRCP (27 August 1805 – 14 July 1857) was an English writer, physician, entomologist, and mycologist.

Margaret Elizabeth Fountaine (born 16 May 1862 in Norwich, England; died 21 April 1940 in Trinidad), a Victorian lepidopterist and diarist, was born in Norfolk, the eldest of seven children of an English country clergyman, Reverend John Fountaine of South Acre parish in East Anglia.

Edward Percy Stebbing, FRGS, FZS (4 January 1872 – 21 March 1960) was a pioneering British forester and forest entomologist in India.

Harold Oldroyd was a British entomologist, born in 1914.

John Traherne Moggridge (8 March 1842 – 24 November 1874) was a British botanist, entomologist, and arachnologist.

Sam W. Heads (born April 22, 1983 in Northumberland, UK) is a British palaeontologist, a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and an Officer of the Orthopterists' Society.

Brevet Colonel Sir (Samuel) Rickard Christophers CIE, OBE, FRS (27 November 1873 – 19 February 1978) was a British protozoologist and medical entomologist specialising in mosquitoes.