Henry Doubleday (1 July 1808 – 29 June 1875) was an English

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and

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. Henry Doubleday was the eldest son of

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and grocer Benjamin Doubleday and his wife Mary of

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, Essex. He and his brother

Edward Doubleday Edward Doubleday (9 October 1810 – 14 December 1849) was an English entomologist primarily interested in Lepidoptera. He is best known for ''The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera: Comprising Their Generic Characters, a Notice of Their Habits and ...

spent their childhood collecting natural history specimens in

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. He lived at the same time as his cousin Henry Doubleday (1810-1902) the scientist and

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. There is a

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to him at the corner of High Street and Buttercross Lane, Epping. He was the author of the first catalogue of British butterflies and moths, ''Synonymic List of the British Lepidoptera'' (1847–1850). He named a number of new species of

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s, including the pigmy footman,

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and marsh oblique-barred. His moth collection remains intact at the

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Sources

* ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. OUP (2004).

External links

*Full text of Andrew Murray's ''Catalogue of the Doubleday Collection of Lepidoptera'
Part I. British Lepidoptera
an
Part II. European Lepidoptera''A Synonymic List of All the British Butterflies and Moths''
*Dunning, J.W. (March 1877
"Biographical Notice"
''The Entomologist''. 1808 births 1875 deaths 19th-century British biologists 19th-century English people English lepidopterists English ornithologists English naturalists English Quakers People from Epping {{UK-ornithologist-stub