Keeper of Entomology, Natural History Museum

The Keeper of Entomology was an

, known as the Assistant Keeper in Charge of Insects but reorganisation in 1913 saw entomology get its own department. Both are listed below:

Assistant Keepers in Charge of Insects

• Arthur Gardiner Butler 1895–1901
• George Francis Hampson
  (acting) 1901–1905
• Charles Owen Waterhouse 1905–1910
• Charles Joseph Gahan 1910–1913

Keepers of Entomology

• Charles Joseph Gahan 1913–1927
• Ernest Edward Austen 1927–1932
• Norman Denbigh Riley 1932–1955
• William Edward China 1955–1960
• John Priestman Doncaster 1960–1968
• Paul Freeman 1968–1981
• Laurence Mound
  1981–1992
• Richard Lane 1992–1997
• Rory Post (Acting) 1997–1998
• Richard Irwin Vane-Wright 1998–2004
• Quentin D. Wheeler 2004–2006
• Martin Hall (Acting) 2006
• Malcolm Scoble 2006–2010
• Andrew Polaszek (Acting) 2010–2012

The Department of Entomology was merged with the Departments of Zoology and Botany in 2012 to form the Department of Life Sciences.

External links

• http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/library/archives/catalogue/dserve.exe?dsqServer=placid&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=6&dsqSearch=%28%28%28text%29=%27keeper%27%29AND%28%28text%29=%27entomology%27%29%29