Person Perkins; Robert Cyril Layton (1866 - 1955); entomologist Perkins Robert Cyril Layton entomologist 1866 - 1955 British Male Badminton, Gloucestershire, England 15 November 1866 18661115 Hi home, Wotton, Newton Road, Bovey Tracey, England 29/09/1955 19550929

Wotton, Newton Road, Bovey Tracey, England

entomologist Insect taxonomy Natural history Ornithology Entomology Education: Merchant Taylors' School (1877–85); Jesus College, Oxford, MA; DSc (Oxon) Career: Private tutor at Dartmouth; selected by the Sandwich Islands committee (created by the British Association and the Royal Society) to go to the Hawaiian Islands as a collector, periodically retuning to England to work on the results (1891-1901); assisted Albert Koebele in the liberation of insect parasites which Koebele was sending to Honolulu for the control of pests (1895); worked for the board of agriculture of the Territory of Hawaii, organising inspection of imported plants to prevent introduction of pests (1902-1904); director of the new division of entomology at the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association's experimental station (1904); retired to England owing to ill health, settling in Devon, retained on the staff as a consulting entomologist (1912); resumed his study of the British Aculeata which resulted in several papers; assisted Reverend F. D. Morice in his contemplated revision of the British sawflies (1920); went blind in his last days (1955). Memberships: FZS; FES Awards/Medals: Linnean Medal 1912 Parents: Reverend Charles Mathew Perkins and Agnes Martha Beach, daughter of the Reverend Percy Thomas. Spouse: 1) (1901) Zoë Lucy Sherrard Alatau (d. 1940), daughter of A. T. Atkinson, superintendent of public schools in the Hawaiian Islands, and granddaughter of Thomas Witlam Atkinson; 2) (1942) Clara M. J. Senior (née Dowse), she died in 1949. Children: Four sons, one of whom died in infancy. His son John Frederick Perkins (1910-1983) was a hymnopterist. Noted for his work on Hymenoptera. Particularly interested in Aculeata. Studied the Stylops parasites of British bees. Held an interest in ornithology, supplying information on Hawaiian birds, many of which are now extinct. Fellow 13/05/1920 54 Thomas Algernon Chapman Sidney Frederic Harmer Henry Woodward William Bateson Frederick Augustus Dixey Edward Bagnall Poulton David Sharp Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1956 vol 2 pp 215-236, plate, by Hugh Scott International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.1956.0015 15 Nov 1866 - 29 Sep 1955 The past Fellows entries are under continuous revision. If you have queries or additional information to contribute, please contact Library@royalsociety.org. Content in external sources is not controlled by the Royal Society and historical sources may include content that is now unacceptable. Reviewed on 06/11/2024 as part of the Name Authority Project update. NA777 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 08/09/2025 RS_NET\VirginiaM Yes 32792c59-f3bb-4ee8-9d0a-36883f654b3d