Morice, Francis David (1849-1926)

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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Francis David Morice (23 June 1849, St John's Wood - 21 September 1926, Woking) was an English entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera.

The Reverend Francis David Morice was a noted theologist and linguist who wrote Stories in Attic Greek ( London, Rivingtons, 1883), still in print.

His work in entomology involved extensive travel. Morice made collecting expeditions to Egypt , Algeria ,Asia Minor , Mesopotamia and Persia.

Morice was President of the Royal Entomological Society (1911-1912).

THE Rev. Francis David Morice, well known as an authority on certain families of Hymenoptera, died at Woking in his seventy-eighth year, on September 23. Educated at Winchester, from which he passed in 1866 to New College, Oxford, he gained high distinction as a classical scholar, and in 1874 was appointed a master at Rugby under Dr. Jex-Blake. Here he remained for twenty years, retiring ultimately in 1894 to Woking, where he took a house next to his great friend Edward Saunders, and devoted himself to entomological research.


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