OBITUARY 



L.CE. BUSHBY 



The untimely death of Leonard Charles Edwin Bushby at the 

 age of 61 , in an accident on ¥^y 2nd v/hen his car fell into 

 Rye Harbour was a great shock. After leaving school he started 

 work at a Bank but Joined the forces for the last year of the 

 First World War, On demobilisation he followed his natural 

 inclination and took a course in Entomology at the Imperial 

 College. He succeeded Miss E. Cheesenan as Curator of insects at 

 the London Zoo and worked there until retirement in 1953 when he 

 boLight a bungalow at Challock Lees near Ashf ord in the centre of 

 much varied and interesting country, Leonard Bushby was aji 

 enthusiastic Field Naturalist o A great lover of all v/ild life 

 his kaov/ledge v/as wide rather than profound and specialised. 

 Insects foirned his principal study. The Coleoptera of v/hich he 

 made a good collection, came first but he was also greatly 

 interested ia Lepidoptera, Neuroptera, Hemoptera, and other orders, 

 He was an active member of the newly formed Kent Field Club and 

 Honoraiy Secretary of the Entomological Section of the Folkestone 

 Natural History'- Society. A lovable personality he is greatly 

 missed by many friends. He was a bachelor. 



RONALD Wo FAWTHROP 



Ronald 'vV, Pavrbhrop v«ras formerly in business as a chemist at 

 I.Iitcham coming to live in Folkestone on his retirement in 1 951 o 

 Intensely interested in entomology, he soon joined the Natural 

 History Society, but being temporarily engaged on some v/ork at 

 Deal he was at first unable to attend the meetings of the 

 Entomological Section, As soon as his Saturdays were free he 

 attended with regularity and enthusiasm. In three seasons and 

 part of a fourth he worked a mercury- vapour light trap at his 



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