Edward Meyrick, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Edward Meyrick

English entomologist and schoolmaster

Date of Birth: 24-Nov-1854

Place of Birth: Ramsbury, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 31-Mar-1938

Profession: teacher, lepidopterist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Edward Meyrick

  • Edward Meyrick FRS (25 November 1854, in Ramsbury – 31 March 1938, at Thornhanger, Marlborough) was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist.
  • He was an expert on Microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern Microlepidoptera systematics.Edward Meyrick was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge.
  • He actively pursued his hobby during his schooling, and one colleague stated in 1872 that Meyrick "has not left a lamp, a paling, or a tree unexamined in which a moth could possibly, at any stage of its existence, lie hid." Meyrick began publishing notes on microlepidopterans in 1875, but when in December, 1877 he gained a post at The King's School, Parramatta, New South Wales, there were greater opportunities for indulging his interest.
  • He stayed in Australia for ten years (from 1877 until the end of 1886) before returning to England to teach classics at Marlborough College and become a corresponding member of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.
  • He was the author of Handbook of British Lepidoptera (1895) and Exotic Microlepidoptera (Mar.
  • 1912 – Nov.
  • 1937), the latter consisting of four complete volumes and part of volume five.
  • He also wrote a great number of academic articles. Meyrick was a life-long member of the Conservative party, and spent twelve years as President of the East Wilts Unionist Association.
  • Meyrick was a fellow of the Royal Entomological Society of London and a Fellow of the Royal Society.
  • During his lifetime, he may have described more than 20,000 species of Lepidoptera.
  • His huge collection of specimens (over 100,000) is at the Natural History Museum, London.
  • It is believed that he had collected more specimens than anyone else.

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