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Olive Grey
[edit]Olive Grey was a British Entomologist.
Grey was admitted to the South London Entomological and Natural History Society in 1926, where her main interest was listed as 'ent' [=entomology] (as opposed to specialising upon a particular insect order).[1] Grey was also a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London.[1] She was married to William Ernest Grey (-1972?). They lived in a flat at Trentishoe Mansions, 90 Charing Cross Road, in 1918 (Electoral Register).
Alice Barringer Mackie
[edit]Alice Barringer Mackie (1885-1977) was a British naturalist, traveller and filmmaker.
Family and early life
[edit]Mackie was born on 1 August 1885[2] at Alexandria, Egypt. Mackie's father was Sir James Mackie (1838-1898), Surgeon to the British Consulate at Alexandria, Egypt,[3] and her mother was Louise Kirby Mackie (née Moubert, then Kirby, 1851-1892). Mackie had two full siblings: Stella Louise (1888-1912)[4] and James Ogilvie (1891-1938). Mackie's mother Louise had previously been married to a barrister named Laurence Daniel Kirby (c.1842-1880), who had died at Alexandria in November 1880[5], and Mackie had two older half-siblings named Edgar and Violet Kirby.
Mackie had lost both her parents by 1898, and in 1901 she and her younger siblings Stella and James, with older half-siblings Edgar and Violet, were living with a guardian named Marie Chanal in London.[6]
19 year-old Mackie was presented as a Debutante to King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra at Buckingham Palace on 24 February 1905 - her introduction at court came via Ethel Moberly Bell, wife of Charles Frederic Moberly Bell, editor of The Times newspaper.[7]
During the First World War Mackie volunteered as a doctor's driver, and at a hospital for wounded soldiers.[8]
As an adult, Mackie was independently wealthy and a prolific traveller during the 1920s-1950s. Mackie's half-sister Violet lived in the United States, and Mackie visited her regularly. Mackie's brother James emigrated to New Zealand, and Mackie visited James and his family in 1924 and 1928,[9] and assisted the family by supporting their education.[8]
During World War II Mackie lived at Beaufort Mansions, Chelsea, and served in the Women's arm of the Auxiliary Fire Service.[2]
Mackie was a Catholic and her diaries detail that she regularly attended mass.
Travels with Theodore and Wilmatte Cockerell
[edit]In 1927 the entomologists Theodore Dru Anson Cockerell and Wilmatte Porter Cockerell toured around the world, and Mackie was their companion for part of the trip. Mackie was in contact with Theodore Cockerell by 29 January 1927:
" Wrote to Prof. Cockerell today warning him I am a Catholic & a bad sailor before he definitely decides to take me on his expedition." (Mackie's diary for 31 January 1927)[10]
The Cockerells met up with Mackie in Penang, and she then accompanied them to Thailand, then to Australia and across the Pacific. Mackie and Wilmatte Cockerell proceeded to two weeks in Samoa while Theodore Cockerell went to Honolulu. then the women joined him in Hawaii.[11]
Mackie accompanied the Cockerells to Guyana in 1929.
[up to 19 May1927]
Death and Legacy
[edit]Mackie died at Hindhead, Surrey on 21 January 1977.[12]
Some entomological specimens collected by Mackie when she travelled with the Cockerells are in the collection of the Natural History Museum, London.[13] Much of Mackie's personal archive entered into the care of her family through her brother James' descendants, with her film reels being deposited in the National Archive of New Zealand in 1987 and copies uploaded to Youtube by James's grandson Phil Mackie.[9] Alice Barringer Mackie's diaries dating from WWI are in the care of the New Zealand Army Museum,[9] and Mackie's diaries about her travels with the Cockerells were deposited by her family in the collections of the University of Boulder Colorado, and have been digitised.[8]
Dr James W. McKean and Laura Bell McKean
[edit]Dr James W. McKean (1860-1949) was a doctor and Presbyterian Missionary who worked in Thailand, supported by his wife Laura Bell McKean (nee Wilson, 1870-1949).
Entomology
[edit]The McKeans, usually credited as Dr. and Mrs J.W. McKean, collected insects in Thailand.
In February 1929 The McKeans were visited at Chiang Mai by Theodore Cockerell, Wilmatte Cockerell, and Alice Mackie, who had taken advantage of railway construction finally reaching the town.[14] The Cockerell party and the McKeans went to Doi Suthep to collect insects and plants,
Mary [?Elizabeth] Steele
[edit]Mary Elizabeth Steele (b.1880, flourished circa 1920s-1940s, d.1974) was a British artist, insect and plant collector who travelled widely.
Steele was born on 13 April 1880 at Great Parndon, Essex, to Adam Rivers Steele (a solicitor, 1843-1928) and Eleanor (nee Robinson), who had married at Mirfield, Yorkshire, in 1873. Steele had several siblings. The Steeles were a generational family of solicitors and were wealthy.
In 1923-1924 Steele accompanied the Thomas Alexander Barns Expedition to the Congo and Angola as an artist, the other main participants being Barns himself, Barns's wife Margery, Alfred Collins of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia, and Paul Renaud, who accompanied the expedition as an assistant collector.[15] The expedition has financial support from James John Joicey.[15] At the time of departing England, Steele gave her address as number 22 Barkston Gardens, north west London, a property that had previously belonged to the actress Ellen Terry.[16][17] Steele travelled with Mr and Mrs Barns from London towards Dar es Salaam on the Union Castle steamship Norman.[18][16] Barns' account of the expedition details how the women and some other expedition members were left at Irumu, Ituri Province while he and Renaud went hunting.[19]
Steele returned to the Congo in 1925, later donating a series of photographs she had taken to the collection of the Royal Geographical Society.[20] Also in 1925 Steele travelled to Sudan and Abyssinia [Ethiopia], once more donating photographs from her journey to the Royal Geographical Society.[20]
On 23 November 1925, Steele was elected a Member of the Royal Geographical Society.[21]
Steele collected in Gabon before 1929 [entom register], possibly Mauritania and Gambia before 1931, Cameroon, Burma, Kenya colony and Sudan items from MS and van Someren donated in 1946, Zimbabwe, Tanzania.
Steele went on an expedition with Lucy Evelyn Cheesman (1881-1969) in 1932.
In January 1932 Steele collected mosses in Cameroon.
Steele collected Odonata at Jebel Murra in Sudan from April to July 1932, recording the occurrence of twenty species in a list published in a paper by Cynthia Longfield in 1936.[22]
In November 1934 Steele travelled to Calcutta on the MV Dumana, listing her occupation as 'collecting insects.'[23]
Selected species of insects and plants named from specimens collected by Mary Steele
[edit]1942: Trichoptera: Dinarthrena steelae (named in Steele's honour), a caddisfly described by Martin Mosely from material collected by Steele in the Mishmi Hills in 1935.[24]
1999: Diptera: Bactrocera (Zeugodacus) assamensis, a fruit fly described by Ian M. White from a specimen collected by Steele in the Mishmi Hills in March 1935.[25]
2004: Arachnida: Icius steelae (named in Steele's honour) a jumping spider, described by Dmitri V. Logunov from specimens collected by Steele in April 1932 at Jebel Marra in Sudan.[26]
Legacy
[edit]In 1964 Steele deposited her papers and photographs relating to Alexander Barns' 1923-1924 expedition to the Congo at the National Archives and Record Service of South Africa. [27]
Specimens collected by Steele are in the collections of the Natural History Museum, London, and Manchester Museums.
Margaret and Frederick Jowett
[edit]Margaret Rosemary Jowett (usually known as 'Maurge,' nee Ferguson, 1930-2023) and Frederick Jowett (1922-1986), often referred to professionally as Mr and Mrs F. Jowett, were an Australian couple who lived and worked on Norfolk Island and were known for recording the insect species of the Island, as well as contributing in many other ways to their community.
Margaret and Frederick married on 3 May 1954 at Mordialoc, Victoria: at the time Frederick worked as a radio operator and Margaret was working as a filing clerk.[28] The couple moved to Norfolk Island in 1963 so that Frederick could become Norfolk Island's Communications Engineer and operate the Island's Ionospheric Station.
Entomology
In the 1970s the Jowetts supported the work of British research entomologist Jeremy Holloway, contributing species occurence records to the book The Lepidoptera of Norfolk Island: Their Biogeography and Ecology (1977). In March 1985 M Christian and M Sexton collected a species of the mite family Malaconothridae in Margaret's garden at Red Road, which in 2013 was named in Margaret's honour as the new species Malaconothrus jowettae Colloff & Cameron, 2013. The Type specimens of Malaconothrus jowettae are part of the Australian National Insect Collection, at CSIRO in Canberra.
Frederick Jowett died on 1 October 1986 and Margaret worked as a nurse, particularly for older people - Margaret received the Order of Australia in 2002 for her community work and ecological work.
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Ellen Alice Britton
[edit]Ellen Alice Britton M.B.E. (1874-1959) was a British nursery gardener who was active as an insect collector in Argentina from circa 1899-1905, sometimes working with her brother Charles. Britton was later awarded an M.B.E. for her voluntary service during the First World War.
Early life
Britton was born in Marylebone on 17 September 1874[29][30]: her parents were William Samuel Britton, a surgeon (1820-1877) and Ellen Henson Britton (née Sharp, 1843-1912), who had married in 1865.[31]
Britton's father William had been married previously in 1842, a relationship that had endured a long estrangement and finally ended in divorce in 1863 after his then wife Louisa Weekes had a child with another man named Henry Burton.[32] Because of her father's earlier marriage Britton had an older half-brother named Alfred (1848-1956), as well as three full siblings from her father's second marriage with her mother Ellen Sharp: Marion Emma (1868-1936), William Arthur (1868-1935) and Charles Boden (1870-1924). William Britton Snr. died in 1877 when Ellen Alice was three years old and afterwards she was cared for by her widowed mother in Berkhamstead, supported by her aunt and grandmother.[33]
Ellen Alice Britton was educated at a girl's boarding school at 22 Denmark Terrace, Brighton, and was recorded as resident there aged 16 on the night of the 1891 England census.[34]
Natural History collecting in Argentina
[edit]Britton's older brother William Arthur Britton emigrated to Argentina to work as a sheep rancher, and was resident in the country by 1896 when he was married at Buenos Aires to Anna Dorothea Heuer (1870-1943). Spending time with William Arthur and his family in Argentina is a likely explanation for Ellen and Charles Britton visiting the country.
Natural history specimens collected by the Britton siblings were all collected at Entre Rios Province: in 1899 one of the Brittons (likely Ellen or Charles) collected an example of the sphinx moth Manduca paphus paphus at La Soledad.[35] An Arctiinae specimen collected by Ellen in January 1899, again at La Soledad, became the type specimen of a species described and named in her honour by Walter Rothschild, Paracles brittoni (Rothschild, 1910) - originally named Mallocephala brittoni. In April 1906, close to the Uruguayan border, Ellen collected the type specimen of the moth Erbessa dominula (Warren, 1909) which was described by William Warren at Tring, originally named Oricia dominula.[36]
In 1904-1905 Ellen collected several caddisfly specimens which are now in the collections of the Natural History Museum, London.[37][38][39][40][41]
By 1906 Charles and Ellen had collected some examples of Argentinian butterflies for Lord Rothschild's Museum at Tring, including Parides bunichus sbsp. damocrates (Guenée, 1872), Heraclides thoas thoantiades (Burmeister, 1878), Heraclides anchisiades capys (Hubner, [1809]) and Papilio hellanichus Hewitson, 1868.[42]
Ellen was also a collector of botanical specimens with at least one example, a specimen of silver nightshade Solanum elaeagnifolium in the collections of the NHMUK.
Return to the U.K. and volunteering during WWI
[edit]In 1910 Ellen Britton was recorded as travelling back to the UK from Buenos Aires aboard the ship Asturias.
In around 1913 Britton and her older sister Marion moved to Tiverton, Devon where they lived in a house called Beecroft, opening their garden to the public regularly for fundraising towards good causes. During the First World War Ellen worked as quartermaster for the Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment hospital that was based at Knightshayes Court, a service for which she was awarded a civilian M.B.E. in 1920.
In the 1930s Ellen with Marion travelled to Rangoon. Ellen solo also went to New Zealand, again to visit William.
Britton contributed living plants, bulbs and seeds to Kew Gardens in 1935.[43] She was still working as a nursery gardener in 1939.
Death and Legacy
[edit]Ellen Britton died at Tiverton on 6 September 1959, and is laid to rest at St Mary's churchyard in Washfield.
Specimens collected by Britton formed part of Lord Walter Rothchild's bequest of his collections to the British Museum, and are now part of the collection of the Natural History Museum, London.
Charles Edgar Salmon (botanist and architect)
[edit]Charles Edgar Salmon (1872-1930) was a British architect and botanist who specialised in the flora of Surrey.
Biography
[edit]Salmon was born on 22 November 1872. Salmon's parents were Samuel Salmon (1829-), an Auctioneer and later Surveyor, and Isabella (nee Phillips).
on 24 June 1905 Salmon married Agnes Bowyer at St Matthews church in Redhill.
Salmon was an architect who ran a practice in Reigate, and he designed many local houses and the Parish Hall in South Park.
On [date] Salmon was found unconscious on the floor of the Holmesdale Natural History Club's Museum. He was conveyed to his house but died the next day without regaining consciousness. Salmon was laid to rest in the Friends Burial Ground at Reigate.
In his will Salmon bequeathed his Herbarium of 60,000 specimens to the Natural History Museum.
The labelling on specimens which came from Salmon's Herbarium preserves associations with the many other botanists who contributed to it.
John Benbow (botanist)
John Benbow (1821-1908) was a British botanist.
References
[edit]Katharine Jane Richardson (Entomologist)
Katharine Jane Richardson (Entomologist) and Henry Lorimer Richardson (Chemist)
Katharine Jane Richardson (nee Fisher) F.E.S. was a [?British] entomologist. [?b. 1906] In 1938 she married Henry Lorimer Richardson ( born 18 June 1902-1995), on 19 May 1938 he was an agricutural chemist from New Zealand. He graduated from Victoria University.
They retired to New Zealand c. 1962
Belford Hilton Wilson
Belford Hinton Wilson (1803-1858) was a British diplomat.
References
Harry Krauss Nield (Astronomer)
[edit]Harry Krauss Nield (1870-1926) was a British Astronomer and President of the British Astronomical Society.
Nield was born in Albincham, Cheshire, the son of James A Nield, a spice merchant [1881 census] and his wife Catherine. Harry was one of ten children.
Nield led a British party to Burgas [Burgos] in Spain to witness totality during the Eclipse of the sun in August 1905. The naturalist Alfred Edwin Eaton also accompanied the British party to record the behaviour of insects during the eclipse.
Charles Edward Tottenham
[edit]Charles Edward Tottenham was a British entomologist whose special study was Coleoptera.
W.E. Jones
[edit]Snake hunter and natural history collector
W.E. "Mamba" Jones was a snake hunter and natural history collector who flourished in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa from c.1897 to the early 1950s.
Jones became famous in the 1920s for hunting snakes for their venom to be milked for medical purposes. Jones had apparently killed at least 800 mambas.
In the early 1950s Jones excavated...
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