Bothers who were members of the Fylde Naturalists Society and founded its magazine The Fylde Naturalist in the 1970s. The brothers were interested in several orders but particularly the Lepidoptera although they do note in an autobiographical chapter in Raven ent. nat. hist. soc. Fifty Years, 1946-1996, 183-84 that 'for the last ten years or so we have been studying a few groups of the Fylde insect fauna for which little published local data exists in particular Coleoptera and Heteroptera' (MD 1/22)