Kenneth Gloyne Blair

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Kenneth Gloyne Blair (born December 22, 1882 in Nottingham , † December 11, 1952 in Freshwater , Isle of Wight ) was an English entomologist . His research focus was the beetles (Coleoptera).

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Kenneth Blair was the eldest son of William Nisbet Blair, an engineer who served for many years with St. Pancras Borough Council. After graduating from Highgate School and Birkbeck College in London, he entered the Civil Service in 1901 , where he served for nine years in the Treasury and the Supreme Court. In 1910 he was appointed assistant curator in the coleopter collection of the Natural History Museum in London. He was particularly interested in the families of the oil beetles (Meloidae), the black beetles (Tenebrionidae), the fire beetles (Pyrochroidae), the dragon beetles (Pythidae), the sting beetles (Mordellidae) and the horned beetles (Oedemeridae). During the First World War he was stationed in France between 1914 and 1917, where he was wounded twice so badly that he never recovered completely. In 1919 he married Lois Celia Lambert. From this marriage two daughters were born. From 1920 to 1921, and a second time in 1931 was Blair president of the South London Entomological and Natural History Society, whose honorary member he was appointed in 1950 and where he from 1920 on the editorial board of the Proceedings and Transactions of the South London Entomological and Natural History Society was . In 1923 he became a member of the editorial board of Entomologist's Monthly Magazine . In 1932 Blair became Deputy Keeper of the Entomological Department of the Natural History Museum. In 1933 he received his doctorate from the University of London to the Doctor of Science. From 1940 to 1941 he was president of the Royal Entomological Society . In 1943 Blair retired because of his troubled health. In the last years of his life he studied the entomofauna of the Isle of White.

Dedication names

Sedina buettneri , Lithophane leautieri , Cyclophora puppillaria , three species of moths , have the common names Blair's Wainscot, Blair's shoulder-knot and Blair's Mocha.

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SURNAME Blair, Kenneth Gloyne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blair, Kenneth; Blair, Kenneth G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Nottingham , England, UK
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1952
Place of death Freshwater , Isle of Wight