Percy Hall Grimshaw FRSE FERS

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(1869 in

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– 1939 in

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) was an

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entomologist and zoogeographer. He was an expert on butterflies ( Lepidoptera). He is also known for his work on Diptera.

Life

He was born in Leeds the son of Emma and David Grimshaw. He originally was in banking in Leeds. In 1895 he accompanied

William Eagle Clarke Dr William Eagle Clarke FLS FRSE PBOU I.S.O LL.D. (16 March 1853 – 10 May 1938) was a British ornithologist. Life Clarke was born in Leeds where his father William Clarke was a solicitor and educated at the Grammar School and at Yorkshire ...

to Edinburgh to take on roles at the

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as an entomologist. From 1930 to 1935 he was Keeper of Natural History in the museum. He is known mainly for his work on Diptera. In 1909 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir

James Johnston Dobbie Sir James Johnston Dobbie, FRS FRSE FIC FCS (4 August 1852 – 19 June 1924) was known for the isolation, chemical structure, and physical properties (especially UV and visible spectra) of alkaloids. He isolated hydroxycodeine from opium and syn ...

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and

Ramsay Heatley Traquair Ramsay Heatley Traquair FRSE FRS (30 July 1840 – 22 November 1912) was a Scottish naturalist and palaeontologist who became a leading expert on fossil fish. Traquair trained as a medical doctor, but his thesis was on aspects of fish anatom ...

. He died in

on 14 November 1939.

Family

He was married to Jeannie Blair White.

Works

partial list *1901 Diptera. p. l-77 ''

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'' and 1902 supplement with Paul Speiser *1911 Bartholomew, J.G., Clarke, W.E., Grimshaw, P.H.
Atlas of Zoogeography
'. John Bartholomew and Co., Edinburgh. *1912 Clare Island Survey: A biological survey of Clare Island, Co. Mayo: Diptera ''

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'', Vol. XXXI, Sect. 2, Part 25, pp. 1–34, December, 1912

References

*Ritchie, J. 1939 rimshaw, P. H. ''North Western Nat.'', Arbroath 14 : 290–291, 247–248 *Ritchie, J. 1941 rimshaw, P. H. ''Proc. R. Soc. Edinb''., Edinburgh 60 : 392–393 *Smart, J. 1945 rimshaw, P. H. ''Journ. Soc. Bibl. Nat. Hist''., London 2 : 39–42 Bibliography of Percy Hall Grimshaw

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accesses full bibliography. {{DEFAULTSORT:Grimshaw, Percy H. English entomologists Dipterists 1869 births 1939 deaths Companions of the Imperial Service Order Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Members of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union