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Olive Grey

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). Grey was also a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. She was married to William Ernest Grey. They lived in a flat at Trentishoe Mansions, 90 Charing Cross Road, in 1918 (Electoral Register).

Alice Barringer Mackie

Alice Barringer Mackie (1885-1977) was a British Naturalist, traveller and filmmaker.

Biography

Mackie was born on 1 August 1885 at Alexandria, Egypt. Mackie's father was Sir James Mackie (1838-1898), Surgeon to the British Consulate at Alexandria, Egypt, and her mother was Louise Kirby Mackie (nee Moubert, 1851-1892). Mackie had two full siblings: Stella Louise Mackie and James Ogilvie Mackie. 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, and Mackie had two older half-siblings.

Mackie had lost both her parents by 1898, and by 1901 Mackie and her siblings were living with a guardian (and aunt / uncle?) in London.

Mackie's diaries travel are in the collections of the University of Boulder Colorado, and have been digitised.

Later in life Mackie lived at Beaufort Mansions, Chelsea.

Travels with Theodore and Wilmatte Cockerell

In 1927 the entomologists Theodore Dru Anson Cockerell and Wilmatte Porter Cockerell toured around the world. 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 29 January 1927)

They met up with Alice Barringer 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.

Kenneth J Morton

Circa September 1883, Morton was sent a collection of caddisflies by a Miss A. B. Freeland of Uddingston, Scotland [full name = Agnes Brownlee Forrest Freeland] who had collected the insects while staying at Glasslough in Ireland. Freeland's collection included some examples of Oecetis furva (Rambur, 1842) which by 1883 had only rarely been recorded in the British Isles. It is not recorded whether Morton and Freeland had known each other previously to 1883, but five years later they were married.

Kenneth John Morton and his wife Agnes were laid to rest together in a Freeland family plot at Old Carluke Cemetery in South Lanarkshire.

Freeland's sister had Aimee had married the Liverpudlian engineer John Brodie, so Morton was also tangentially related by marriage to the man who invented the football net.

Mary [?Elizabeth] Steele

Mary Elizabeth Steele (c.1880-?1975) was a British entomologist and ?) insect collector who collected in Gabon before 1929, possibly Mauritania before 1931, Cameroon, Burma, Kenya colony and Sudan items from MS and van Someren donated in 1946, Zimbawe, Tanzania. Steele went on an expedition with Cheesman in 1932.

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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.

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