THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Vol. LV.] JUNE, 1922. [No. 709 



HENRY ROWLAND-BROWN. 



(Plate I.)* 



It is with the deepest regret that we have to record the death of 

 one of the best known and most popular of British entomologists, 

 a member of our Editorial Staff, and one whose writings are 

 known and appreciated by all our readers. 



Although past his first youth Mr. Rowland-Brown was of 

 such strong physique, and had enjoyed such perfect health until 

 recently, that so far as could be seen there were many years of 

 life before him. About a year ago, however, he developed a 

 heart affection, which it is thought originated early in life 

 through athleticism, and which there is not much doubt was 

 hastened by his strenuous war work. Although apparently hope- 

 lessly ill last summer, his splendid constitution enabled him to 

 make a wonderful rally, and it was hoped be might be restored 

 to partial health and comfort, but it was not to be, and he passed 

 away at his residence, Oxhey Grove, Harrow Weald, on May 

 3rd last. 



Henry Rowland-Brown was born at Woodridings, Pinner, on 

 May 19th, 1865, and would thus be in his fifty-seventh year at the 

 time of his death. He was educated at Rugby, being during a 

 portion of his schooldays under the care of the well-known 

 hymenopterist, the Rev. F. D. Morice. At school he was a noted 

 athlete, and winner of the record quarter-mile. After leaving 

 Rugby he proceeded to Oxford (University College), where he 

 took his degree of Master of Arts. After leaving Oxford, he, a 

 member of an old legal family, studied for the Bar, to which he 

 was called in due course. 



He was a man of many parts : journalism and other literary 

 pursuits occupied much of his working time, and he frequently 

 contributed to the Times, and to the 'Strand,' 'CornhiJl,' and 

 other magazines. But he was also a poet of no mean powers, and 

 his two volumes, ' Rhymes and Rhapsodies ' and ' Preludes and 

 Symphonies,' betray true poetic genius. He usually wrote under 

 the nom-de-plume of "Oliver Grey," a name associated with that 

 of his sister, Miss Rowland-Brown, the novelist, whose name and 

 writings as "Rowland Grey" have attained world-wide fame. 



Amongst his troops of friends he numbered as intimate ones 



* We are greatly indebted to M. Charles Oberthur for his express permission to. 

 reproduce this photograph from his ' Lepidopterologie Comparee.'— Ed. 



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