| Authorised form of name | Sharp; David (1840 - 1922); entomologist |
| Dates | 1840 - 1922 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Towcester, Northamptonshire, England |
| Date of birth | 15 August 1840 |
| Place of death | Brockenhurst, New Forest, England |
| Date of death | 27 August 1922 |
| Dates and places | Burial: Brockenhurst parish churchyard, New Forest, England (31 August 1922). |
| Occupation | Entomologist and physician |
| Research field | Medicine |
| Entomology |
| Activity | Education:
Preparatory schools; St John's foundation school, Kilburn, London; Edinburgh; St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. MB; CM (1866, Edinburgh); MA (Cambridge)
Career:
Embarked upon medical studies at (1862-1866); built up a collection of 2000 named British species of Coleoptera; returned to London, from studies in Edinburgh, working under the Sharp family doctor and taking up the secretaryship of the Entomological Society (1867); returned to Scotland as medical officer in the Crichton Asylum, Dumfries (1867); unsuccessfully bid to become curator of the City of Glasgow Industrial Museum (1876); moved to Wilmington, Kent (1888); became active in London’s scientific circles, becoming recorder of insects for the Zoological Record (1884-1885); curator of the MacAndrew collection at the Cambridge University Museum (1890); editor of the Zoological Records (1891); retired to Brockenhurst, in the New Forest (1909).
Memberships:
FLS; FZS; Entomological Society (President 1887–8; VP 1889, 1891–2, 1896, and 1902–3) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 05/06/1890 |
| Age at election | 50 |
| Proposer | Alfred Newton; Raphael Meldola; James Crichton Browne; Edward Bagnall Poulton |
| George John Romanes; Harry Govier Seeley; John Bull; Frederick Du Cane Godman; Osbert Salvin; William Henry Flower; Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Gunther; Henry Walter Bates; Philip Lutley Sclater; Henry Tibbats Stainton; Robert McLachlan |
| Relationships | Parents: William Sharp, currier, and his wife, Sarah Pepler.
Spouse: Jessie Murdoch, daughter of James Murdoch, coachman, and Isabella Pagan, (1 February 1876).
Children: Five daughters and two sons. |
| Published works | RCN R63339 |
| General context | Distinguished as an Entomologist, especially for his knowledge of the order Coleoptera, which he studied with referenceto their structure, classification, geographical distribution, etc. |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1923-1924 vol 95 pp xxxvi-xliii signed by R C L P |
| Royal Society code | NA6650 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1890/13 | Sharp, David: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/25/107 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to David Sharp, Fellow of the Royal Society | 11 August 1902 |
| NLB/27/43 | Copy telegram from an unknown correspondent, to Dr David Sharp, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Westview, Brockenhurst, Hampshire | [23 June 1903] |
| NLB/30/540 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to David Sharp, Fellow of the Royal Society | 10 April 1905 |
| NLB/23/1/103 | Copy letter from A H White, to Dr David Sharp, Fellow of the Royal Society | 20 September 1901 |
| NLB/10/100 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr David Sharp, Fellow of the Royal Society | 28 September 1894 |
| NLB/10/164 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr David Sharp, Fellow of the Royal Society | 10 October 1894 |
| NLB/11/280 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr David Sharp, Fellow of the Royal Society | 24 May 1895 |
| NLB/10/820 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr [David] Sharp, Fellow of the Royal Society | 11 February 1895 |
| NLB/10/821 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr [David] Sharp, Fellow of the Royal Society | 11 February 1895 |
| NLB/10/830 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr David Sharp, Fellow of the Royal Society | 13 February 1895 |
| NLB/11/290 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr David Sharp, Fellow of the Royal Society | 26 May 1895 |
| NLB/14/637 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 13 April 1897 |
| NLB/14/305 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr David Sharp, Fellow of the Royal Society | 13 February 1897 |
| NLB/14/309 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Armstrong, Fellow of the Royal Society | 13 February 1897 |
| RR/16/62 | Referee's report by David Sharp, on a paper 'On Two Orders of Arachinida Opiliones, especially the Suborder Cyphophthalmi' by H J Hansen and William Sorensen | 22 May 1903 |
| NLB/15/260 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr David Sharp, Fellow of the Royal Society | 26 July 1897 |
| NLB/16/181 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to D Sharp, Fellow of the Royal Society, 10 Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, W. | 17 February 1898 |
| NLB/16/156 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to D Sharp, Fellow of the Royal Society | 14 February 1898 |
| NLB/15/815 | Copy letter from Michael Foster, to David Sharp, Fellow of the Royal Society, Hawthorndene, Hills Road, Cambridge, care of W A Nedham, Commissioner, Nagpur | 17 December 1897 |
| NLB/17/482 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to David Sharp, Fellow of the Royal Society | 8 November 1898 |
| NLB/16/890 | Copy letter from Michael Foster, to David Sharp, Fellow of the Royal Society | 27 June 1898 |
| NLB/18/119 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to D Sharp, Fellow of the Royal Society | 18 January 1899 |
| NLB/18/152 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to D Sharp, Fellow of the Royal Society, Hawthorndene, Hills Road, Cambridge | 25 January 1899 |
| NLB/18/241 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr D Sharp, Fellow of the Royal Society | 10 February 1899 |
| NLB/19/420 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to David Sharp, Fellow of the Royal Society | 25 September 1899 |
| NLB/20/2 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr David Sharp, Fellow of the Royal Society, Hills Road, Cambridge | 11 January 1900 |
| NLB/20/243 | Copy telegram from an unknown correspondent, to Dr David Sharp, Dr Thorpe, Dr Armstrong, [Fellows of the Royal Society] | [6 March 1900] |
| NLB/22/649 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to David Sharp, Fellow of the Royal Society | 20 June 1901 |
| NLB/23/1/322 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr David Sharp, Fellow of the Royal Society | 24 October 1901 |
| NLB/23/1/614 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to David Sharp, Fellow of the Royal Society | 13 December 1901 |
| NLB/29/20 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to David Sharp, Fellow of the Royal Society | 17 June 1904 |
| NLB/28/66 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr David Sharp, Fellow of the Royal Society | 4 January 1904 |
| NLB/30/577 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to David Sharp, University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge | 14 April 1905 |
| NLB/29/578 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to David Sharp, Fellow of the Royal Society, Cambridge | 8 November 1904 |
| NLB/32/131 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr David Sharp, Fellow of the Royal Society | 12 January 1906 |
| NLB/36/685 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr David Sharp, Fellow of the Royal Society | 30 November 1907 |
| NLB/45/757 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to D [David] Sharp FRS | 3 May 1912 |
| NLB/46/401 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr David Sharp, Fellow of the Royal Society | 26 July 1912 |
| NLB/47/765 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to D [David] Sharp FRS | 8 April 1913 |
| NLB/56/272 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [David] Sharp, FRS | 3 January 1919 |
| NLB/64/192 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Robert Cyril Layton] Perkins, FRS | 22 February 1923 |
| RR/12/42 | Referee's report by David Sharp, on a paper 'On the mimetic forms of certain butterflies of the genus Hypolimnas' by C Swinhoe | 12 May 1893 |
| NLB/63/532 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Edward Bagnall] Poulton, FRS | 03 November 1922 |
| NLB/14/307 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society | 13 February 1897 |
| RR/23/44 | Referee's report by David Sharp, on a paper 'On the structure and biology of archotermopsis, together with descriptions of new species of intestinal protozoa, and general observations on the isoptera' by Augustus Daniel Imms | 3 November 1916 |
| MDA/C/12/2/7 | Letter from David Sharp, Bank, by Lyndhurst, to William Abbott Herdman | 26 June 1901 |
| RR/12/332 | Referee's report by David Sharp, on a paper 'The pigments of the Pieridae: a contribution to the study of excretory substances which function in ornament' by Frederick Gowland Hopkins | 26 November 1894 |
| MC/19/751 | Letter from [David] Sharp, Hills Road, Cambridge, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison | 23 June 1904 |
| NLB/29/83 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to David Sharp, Fellow of the Royal Society | 1 July 1904 |
| MC/17 | Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1897-1899 |
| MC/20/365 | Letter from [David] Sharp, University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison | 12 April 1905 |
| MC/19 | Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1904 |
| MC/20 | Volume 20 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1905 |
| MC/37/106 | Letter from [Robert Cyril Layton] Perkins, 4 Thurlestone, Newton Abbot, Devon, to The [Secretary], Royal Society, London | 25 February 1923 |