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Olive Grey
Olive Grey was a British Entomologist.

Grey was admitted to the South London Entomological and Natural History Society in 1926, where her main interest was listed as 'ent' [=entomology] (as opposed to specialising upon a particular insect order). Grey was also a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. She was married to William Ernest Grey. They lived in a flat at Trentishoe Mansions, 90 Charing Cross Road, in 1918 (Electoral Register).

Alice Barringer Mackie
Alice Barringer Mackie (1885-1977) was a British Naturalist, traveller and filmmaker.

Biography
Mackie was born on 1 August 1885 at Alexandria, Egypt. Mackie's father was Sir James Mackie (1838-1898), Surgeon to the British Consulate at Alexandria, Egypt, and her mother was Louise Kirby Mackie (nee Moubert, 1851-1892). Mackie had two full siblings: Stella Louise Mackie and James Ogilvie Mackie. Mackie's mother Louise had previously been married to a barrister named Laurence Daniel Kirby (c.1842-1880), who had died at Alexandria in November 1880, and Mackie had two older half-siblings.

Mackie had lost both her parents by 1898, and by 1901 Mackie and her siblings were living with a guardian (and aunt / uncle?) in London.

Mackie's diaries travel are in the collections of the University of Boulder Colorado, and have been digitised.

Later in life Mackie lived at Beaufort Mansions, Chelsea.

Travels with Theodore and Wilmatte Cockerell
In 1927 the entomologists Theodore Dru Anson Cockerell and Wilmatte Porter Cockerell toured around the world. Mackie was in contact with Theodore Cockerell by 29 January 1927: "' Wrote to Prof. Cockerell today warning him I am a Catholic & a bad sailor before he definitely decides to take me on his expedition.' (Mackie's diary for 29 January 1927)"They met up with Alice Barringer Mackie in Penang, and she then accompanied them to Thailand, then to Australia and across the Pacific. Mackie and Wilmatte Cockerell proceeded to two weeks in Samoa while Theodore Cockerell went to Honolulu. then the women joined him in Hawaii.

Kenneth J Morton
[existing page] Kenneth J. Morton (1858 – 29 January 1940) was a Scottish entomologist, with a particular interest in the study of Odonata and Neuroptera. He was born at Carluke, Lanarkshire, Scotland, and he died at Edinburgh.

His collections are held at the National Museums of Scotland. They include specimens of dragonflies (from worldwide), caddis flies, lacewings and stoneflies. [new material] Circa September 1883, Morton recorded that he had been sent a collection of caddisflies by a Miss A. B. Freeland of Uddingston, Scotland: her full name was Agnes Brownlee Forrest Freeland. Freeland had collected the insects while at Glasslough in Ireland, most likely on holiday. Freeland's collection included some examples of Oecetis furva (Rambur, 1842) which by 1883 had only rarely been recorded in the British Isles. It is not recorded whether Morton and Freeland had known each other previously to this contact, but five years later they were married. The couple had two daughters

Kenneth John Morton and his wife Agnes were laid to rest together in a Freeland family plot at Old Carluke Cemetery in South Lanarkshire.

Freeland's sister had Aimee had married the Liverpudlian engineer John Brodie, so Morton was also tangentially related by marriage to the man who invented the football net.

Mary [?Elizabeth] Steele
Mary Elizabeth Steele (c.1880-?1975) was a British entomologist and ?) insect collector who collected in Gabon before 1929, possibly Mauritania before 1931, Cameroon, Burma, Kenya colony and Sudan items from MS and van Someren donated in 1946, Zimbawe, Tanzania. Steele went on an expedition with Cheesman in 1932.

John Linnell the Younger (artist, botanist and entomologist)
John Linnell (1821-1906) also known as John Linnell the Younger or John Linnell junior was a British artist, botanist, lithographer, teacher, and entomologist. Linnell's father was the artist John Linnell (1792-1882) and he was a brother-in-law of the artist Samuel Palmer (1805-1881).

Biography
Linnell's parents were the artist John Linnell (1792-1882) and Mary Anne Linnell (née Palmer, 1796-1865). John Linnell senior was a religious non-conformist, and the couple had married in a Civil Ceremony in Scotland in 1817.

John Linnell junior was born at Cirencester Place, London, on 25 November 1821 : the Linnell family resided at number 6 - the street was later renamed and its location corresponds today with the northern part of Great Titchfield Street in the West End. John junior was the oldest son of the couple, and he had eight other siblings, many of whom were also artists: Hannah (1818-1893, who married Samuel Palmer in 1837), Mary Elizabeth (known as Elizabeth or Eliza,1820-1903), James Thomas (1823-1905), William (1826-1906), Mary (1828-1883), Sarah (1831-1917), Phebe (1835-1911, who married William Mackee in 1868) and Thomas George (1835-1911). Phebe and Thomas George were twins, born on the same day.

John junior, William and James Thomas Linnell all received art instruction at the Royal Academy Schools.During the late 1840s - early 1850s John Junior was working as a printmaker

The Linnell family moved from London to Redhill, Surrey in 1851, with John Linnell Snr. building a new residence named Redstone Manor in the Redstone area north of Redhill town. and the adult Linnell children living in residences close by. Linnell lived with his sisters Elizabeth and Mary in a house named Redstone Wood in Redhill, which adjoined onto his father's house Redstone Manor (Redstone Manor was demolished in the 1930s/1940s, with Redstone Wood following in 1965 (?)).

On 12 August 1857, the American Consul and writer Nathaniel Hawthorne visited an exhibition in Manchester where he was particularly struck by one of Linnell's works: "I went to the exhibition on Wednesday with U-, and looked at the pencil sketches of the old masters; also at the pictures generally, old and new. I particularly remember a landscape by John Linnell the younger. It is wonderfully good; so tender and fresh that the artists seems really to have caught the evanescent April and made her permanent. Here, at least, is eternal spring. [Nathaniel Hawthorne, English Notebooks, 1857]"Linnell worked as a drawing teacher. [1871 and 1901 census]

Linnell's botanical and entomological collecting concentrated around Surrey, particularly the Reigate and Redhill area. In 1857 Linnell recorded a specimen at Gatton that was later determined as Sonchus maritimus, the first record of the species in Britain [BM015734746].

Edward Saunders recounted how he sometimes accompanied Linnell on beetle collecting trips in the neighbourhood of Reigate and Redhill, searching for species which were known to live in sandpits (up until the twentieth century, the Reigate area was known for its sand mines).

In 1898 through the Holmesdale Natural History Club of Reigate Linnell published a list of local Staphylinidae beetles.

Linnell died on 4 April 1906 at his home in Redhill, and was laid to rest in the Linnell family plot at Reigate Cemetery. A contemporary report in the Surrey Mirror noted that Linnell's funeral was attended by his nieces and nephews and also "a number of old gardeners" who had worked for him.

In the 1944, the area around the Linnell's former home was badly hit by bombs and the house burned down, with the land later sold off in parcels for housing.

Legacy
Some of Linnell's botanical specimens collected in the 1850s became part of the collection of the botanist Charles Edgar Salmon (1872-1930), a president of the Holmesdale Natural History Club in Reigate, who bequeathed his herbarium to the Natural History Museum, London in 1930.



Lithographs created by Linnell during the 1840s and early 1850s (after the works of George Frederic Watts and William Mulready) are held in the collection of the British Museum. Examples of his printmaking are also in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art also have a photographic portrait of Linnell in their collection [as of July 2024, the portrait is catalogued but is not available to view online].

Charles Edgar Salmon (botanist)
Charles Edgar Salmon (1872-1930) was a British architect and botanist who specialised in the flora of Surrey.

Biography
Salmon was born on 22 November 1872. Salmon's parents were Samuel Salmon (1829-), an Auctioneer and later Surveyor, and Isabella (nee Phillips).

on 24 June 1905 Salmon married Agnes Bowyer at St Matthews church in Redhill.

Salmon was an architect who ran