William Denison Roebuck
William Denison Roebuck, (5 January 1851 – 15 February 1919) was an English Naturalist, collector and writer, specialising in Malacology, Conchology and Limacology. He was one of the founding members and secretary of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, Yorkshire Union of Naturalists, and the editor of its journal ''The Naturalist''. Life Origins William Denison Roebuck was born in Leeds on 5 January 1851, and resided there until seventeen years of age, when his parents removed their summer residence to Pannal, a village near Harrogate, and during his summer residences there in 1868 and succeeding years, he commenced the active collection, study and registry of the Butterflies and other insects met with, incited thereto by the possession and perusal of William Stephen Coleman, Coleman's ''iarchive:britishbutterfli00cole_0/mode/2up, British Butterflies'', a book responsible for making many converts to Natural History pursuits. His observations upon the Bees and allied grou ...
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