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Seriously ill for some years past now, and unable to follow 

 actively his favourite study, he recovered sufficiently latterly to be 

 able to visit again some of his old haunts, but not for. long, as he died 

 rather suddenly, we regret to hear, on June 21st last,- at the age of 54. 

 And so vet another is added to our already too long list of losses. 



N, D. E. 



F. B. Newnham, M.A. 



Yet another of our older Entomologists has been claimed by the 

 angel of death in the person of F. B. Newnham, who passed away 

 very suddenly on June 2nd last, and was laid to rest in the cemetery 

 here surrounded by the woods that he had worked and loved so much. 



Born 72 years ago at Kerry, Montgomeryshire, his younger days 

 were spent in France and India. After taking his M.A. at Oxford 

 he studied for the Bar, and when about to be called was struck with 

 a nervous breakdown, and sent to Church Stretton over 40 years 

 back. Its bracing climate soon had the desired effect, and he was so 

 taken with the place and its insect fauna that he abandoned the law, 

 giving himself up to Entomology and never leaving, except for a four 

 months' stay in Switzerland and one delightful three weeks with 

 me at Fontainebleau. He had travelled throughout most pf the 

 Palsearctic Eegion, and amassed a remarkably fine collection of 

 Lepidoptera. 



After settling here he never missed a fine day in the field, and 

 was exceedingly lucky in finding variations, in which his collection 

 abounds. His chief prize was a very wonderful ab. of Aglaia with 

 pale fawn ground and all the black markings on the upper side 

 replaced by silver. In our numberless outings together he was 

 always the lucky one, excepting when a gynandrous icaras fell to 

 my net. We were together in discovering the occurrence of L. 

 corydon here in 1916, and never previously noted in Shropshire. 



Like his friend, the late Dr. Chapman, with whom he often 

 corresponded, Newnham was a very strong upholder of the law of 

 priority in nomenclature, and was equally averse to the needless 

 multiplication of genera, arguing that it is more scientific to include 

 and retain as many species as possible under one head. He was 

 fond of quoting " Rumicia" phlaeas as a flagrant example of sense- 

 less change. 



He was responsible for the Lepidoptera Section of the ' Victorian 

 History of Shropshire,' and in 1894 separated, under the name of 

 hesperidis, a dwarf race of A. cardamines regularly Occurring here. 



A devoted student of Nature, full of humour, he had a ready joke 

 1 and kindly word for everyone, and was always pleased to show his 

 treasures to the numerous entomologists visiting this district. He 

 remained a bachelor, wedded to his hobby and the classics, reading 

 usually until two in the morning and up again at seven for a long 

 day in the field. Thus, his happy earthly life was passed. He has 

 now crossed to those happier hunting-grounds that he loved to talk 

 of, leaving those who knew him to mourn the loss of a true friend. 



M. J. H. 



Church Stretton ; 

 August 21st, 1922. 



