Biographical dictionary

The Biographical Dictionary of British Coleopterists was compiled by the late Michael Darby. The Dictionary can be accessed below, and see also the additional information provide by Michael:

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Name Dates Biography
BILLUPS, C.R.

A doctor. He is listed in the Naturalist's Directory, 1904-7, as interested in Coleoptera alone. His address is given as c/o J.F. Dutton, Gorse Hill, Selsby. Letters from him are preserved in the Sharpe correspondence at Liverpool. (MD 8/17)

BILLUPS, Thomas Richard 1841-10 December

Published his first article on 'Carabus auratus L. in the Borough Market, London’ in Ent.mon.Mag., 16, 1879, 51, but the majority of the one hundred or so entomological notes which followed this were on Hymenoptera, Orthoptera, Diptera and Hemiptera. He lived at 20 Swiss Villas, Copleston Road, Peckham. There are obituaries in Ent., 53, 1920, 72 and Ent.mon.Mag., 56, 1920, 66.

FESL 1879-1902, Council 1884-1886. (MD 10/01)