Henry Tibbats Stainton

Henry Tibbats Stainton (13 August 1822 – 2 December 1892) was an English entomologist.[1]

He was educated at King's College London.

He was the author of A Manual of British Butterflies and Moths[2] (1857–59) and with the German entomologist Philipp Christoph Zeller, a Swiss, Heinrich Frey and another Englishman, John William Douglas of The Natural History of the Tineina (1855–73). He undertook editing William Buckler and John Hellins work, following their deaths: The Larvae of the British Butterflies and Moths.[3] He was also a prolific editor of entomological periodicals, including the Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer (1856–61) and the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (1864 until his death - the magazine continues to be published).[4]

Stainton was a very wealthy man and his house in Lewisham, "Mountsfield", was one of London's more substantial residences set in its own park. Other wealthy entomologists often stayed at Mountsfield when visiting London, notably Alexander Henry Haliday and Deiterich Carl August Dohrn. The zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors was a close friend. Such people, sought by the growing number of scientific societies, wielded enormous influence on scientific development. Stainton was a regular visitor to both Haliday's house in Lucca and to Dohrn's in Stettin. He was a member of both the Entomological Society of London and the Stettin Entomological Society. Besides this, from 1856, he encouraged interest in entomology among the wider public by holding weekly 'open evenings' at his house. Anyone over the age of 14 could freely visit Mountsfield on such evenings, perhaps to have a specimen identified; to view his collection; or simply to learn more about entomology from Stainton himself, or other guests who may have been present.[5]

References

"Stainton, Henry Tibbats" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001959244
Buckler W The larvae of the British butterflies and moths. Volumes 1-5 Edited by HT Stainton. London, Ray Society (1886-1893)
Wale, Matthew (2019), 'Editing entomology: natural-history periodicals and the shaping of scientific communities in nineteenth-century Britain', British Journal for the History of Science, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087419000050
"The Aurelian Legacy". Michael L Salmon. University of California Press, 2000. p39.

External links

Stainton's manuscripts, letters etc in the Natural History Museum, London
Stainton, Henry Tibbats (1822-1892), entomologist by Yolanda Foote in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
1855-73 BHL The natural history of the Tineina (with Douglas, J.W., Frey, H. and Zeller, P.C. London, J. Van Voorst
1869 BHL The Tineina of Southern Europe London, J. Van Voorst
1872 BHLThe Tineina of North America, by (the late) Dr. Brackenridge Clemens. (Being a collected edition of his writings on that group of insects.) With notes by the editor, H.T. Stainton London,J. Van Voorst,1872.

Bibliography

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[1] "Stainton, Henry Tibbats" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

[2] ttp://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001959244

[3] Buckler W The larvae of the British butterflies and moths. Volumes 1-5 Edited by HT Stainton. London, Ray Society (1886-1893)

[4] Wale, Matthew (2019), 'Editing entomology: natural-history periodicals and the shaping of scientific communities in nineteenth-century Britain', British Journal for the History of Science, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087419000050

[5] "The Aurelian Legacy". Michael L Salmon. University of California Press, 2000. p39.