Philip Bertram Murray Allan (13 November 1884 - 31 December 1973)(Scarborough, Yorkshire - Colchester, Essex) was a British lepidopterist and writer who wrote under the initials "O.M.H." (="An Old Moth-Hunter"). He also ran a publishing house Philip Allan and Company.
Allan studied at
Charterhouse School
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and went to
Clare College, Cambridge
Clare College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The college was founded in 1326 as University Hall, making it the second-oldest surviving college of the University after Peterhouse. It was refounded ...
. He worked briefly at the Middlesex Hospital but chose not to pursue medicine and studied history and later became interested in writing, contributing to a dictionary of Latin. During the War he worked with Military Intelligence and after that became an editor for the ''Police Journal'' and from 1937, the ''Journal of Criminal Law'' as well. He collected moths and wrote three books and numerous articles.
In 1916 he married Elsie K Whitehead; there were four children.
[1939 Register for 4 Windhill Old Road, Bishop's Stortford; GRO Register of Births.]
Allan wrote several books and several non-entomological works were written under pseudonyms including Philip Murray, Alban A. Philip, and O. Eliphas Keat.
*
The Book-Hunter at Home (1920)
* A Moth-Hunter's Gossip (1937)
* Talking of Moths (1943)
* Moths and Memories (1948)
References
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