| Activity | Museum staff: appointed Assistant in Department of Entomology May 1920; Assistant Keeper 1922. In charge of Hymenoptera, also large knowledge of Mallophaga (bird-lice) and Siphonaptera (fleas).
Educated Edinburgh University, MA (Hons), BD, BSc (DSc 1921), 1906 awarded Baxter Scholarship in Biology. Minister of the Free Church of Scotland in Shetlands for several years. Joined Imperial Bureau of Entomology in London in 1914. Served commission during WW1 in RAMC, served as Entomologist at Salonika. |