Talk:Frank Hannyngton

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http://www.archive.org/stream/recordofservices00prinrich/recordofservices00prinrich_djvu.txt Record of services of the Honourable East India Company's civil servants in the Madras presidency, from 1741 to 1858... comp. and ed. from records in the possession of the Secretary of state for India

HANNYNGTON, John Child. — 1857 : Writer and Student at the College. 1859 : On leave to Bengal for 6 months; Assistant to Collector and Magistrate, Trichinopoly. 1861 : Officiating Head Assistant at Malabar ; Justice of the Peace. 1862 : Invested with Full Powers of a Magistrate. 1863: Special Assistant to Collector and Magistrate, and Acting Head Assistant, Malabar;

Report of the Proceedings of the Third Entomological Meeting Held at Pusa, 3rd to 15th February 1919 Ed. Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher

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GENITALIA OF SOME CEYLONESE HESPERIIDAE.- By W. Ormiston, F.E.S

By the courtesy of Mr. F. Hannyngton, I.C.S., I have been able to dissect a few specimens from Coorg and found two forms among them which are very distinct from anything I have seen in Ceylon.

The obituary online - http://www.archive.org/stream/journalofbombayn26bomb/journalofbombayn26bomb_djvu.txt Here is the full original text - I am mystified by this "great Jepper" bit... "F. HANNYNGTON, I.C.S. Frank Hannyngton was the youngest son of the late Mr. John Child Hannyngton, a Madras Civilian, who for a long time was Judge of Salem and spent the last 15 years of his service as Resident in Travancore. He was well known as " Curly" to the oarsmen of Trinity College, Dublin, where he became Captain of the boats. From Dublin he went to Wren's to prepare for the I. C. S. examination, which he passed in 1897, returning subsequently to Trinity College for his year's probation. At Wren's and in later life he was known as the "Bishop ". Like many Irishmen he was a great Jepper and one of his accomplishments was to kick a top hat held at arm's length over the head. Hannyngton started his service in India on January 30th, 1899, as Asst. Collector and Magistrate, South Arcot. During the early part of his career he served at Tinnevelly, Malabar, Madras and Ootacamund putting in some time as Private Secretary to H. E. the Governor. In 1906 he went into the Postal Department and was successively Postmaster-General of the Punjab, the United Provinces and Bengal. In 1912 he reverted to the Madras Government being put on special duty in Madras and in the same year he was appointed Commissioner of Coorg which post he held up till the end of 1918 when he was transferred to Bellary. In March he went on leave and on his way home died in Bombay early in April 1919. Hannyngton was always deeply interested m Natural History and in 1897, when at Naini Tal, took up butterfly collecting, to which pursuit he devoted most of his spare time. He made a very fine collection of the butterflies of Kumaun regarding which he published a paper in the Journal (XX. p. 131 & 871) : in this he described a new Zephyrus under the name of triloka, which afterwards proved to be a form of Zephyrus syla. Later he published notes on the life history of Vanessa indica and caschmirensis and of Papilio ravana, also notes on the distribution of Lethe kansa and Euthalia patala. While P. M. G. of Bengal, he sent collectors up the Chumbi valley and secured a new Parnassius, which Mr. Avinoff has named hannyngtoni (T. E. S. 1915, p. 351). In Coorg he again made a most complete collection of the local butterflies and published a note on them in the Journal (XXIV. p. 578). Amongst the butterflies he captured in Coorg were a most interesting series of Mycalesis, which have not yet been worked out. Hannyngton's death was a blow to all his friends ; he was " one of the very best." He joined the Society in 1908 and became a member of the Committee in 1913. He had great hopes of succeeding to his father's job of Resident in Travancore and working out the butterflies in that province, which are not as well known as they should be. He married in 1905, Maisie, daughter of Col. Forbes."