Claude Morley, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Claude Morley

British entomologist

Date of Birth: 22-Jun-1874

Date of Death: 13-Nov-1951

Profession: entomologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Claude Morley (22 June 1874 in Astley Bank, Blackheath – 13 November 1951 in Monk Soham House, Monk Soham Woodbridge, Suffolk) was an English antiquary and entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera and Diptera. Morley was born in Blackheath and educated at Beccles, King's School, Peterborough and Epsom College.
After living on the Isle of Wight in his father's house at Cowes, he moved in 1892 to Ipswich where worked with John E.
Taylor, then Curator of the Ipswich museum. He married in 1904, living in Monk Soham until his death.
He had no radio, telephone, or electricity in his house.E.A.
Elliott was a close friend as was Arthur Chitty.
Morley worked first on Coleoptera, then Hemiptera and then Ichneumonidae.
His magnum opus was the five volume Ichneumons of Great Britain (1903–1914).
Morley's collection of mainly Suffolk material covering the period 1898–1951 is in Ipswich Museum.
It occupies c.260 drawers.
There are Cerambycids bearing his name in the Kauffmann collection at Manchester. Morley was a Fellow of the Entomological Society of London 1896.