Born in London and educated at St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate and University College, Cardiff. Served in the Royal Artillery. Between 1961-64 he did postgraduate research and acted as a Demonstrator in Zoology, University College, Cardiff. From 1964 he has worked in the Zoology Department of the NMW, firstly as Assistant Keeper (until 1982) and later as head of the sub-department of entomology.

Published 'Some aquatic Coleoptera of the Dyffryn area of Merionethshire', based on a survey undertaken in June 1944, EMM, 80, 1944, 288-90, and a comprehensive 'Aquatic Coleoptera of Staffordshire', ibid., 81, 1945, 155-59. He is mentioned in Skidmore, P. & Johnson, C. (1969). (MD 1/22)

Lived in Horsham and was responsible for forming the Friends of Warnham Local Nature Reserve of which he was the first Chairman. Started with a general interest in natural history but in later life turned to insects and particularly beetles. He started to put together a short illustrated booklet about the beetles in the Warnham area which was completed after his death by Neil Henry. (Information from Peter Hodge). (MD 1/22)

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)

The following was written in 1995 before the Biographical Dictionary moved from hard copy onto the web. 

'Born at Ashton-under-Lyne, near Manchester and educated at Hyde Grammar School. Lived at Dunkinfield in nearby Cheshire until his marriage in 1969. He moved in 1971 to Glossop, Derbyshire, where he still lives with wife Clare and two sons (Phil, 25 and Andrew, 23).