HEWITSON

William Chapman . b. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 9 Jany. 1806; ed. at York; land surveyor, sometime under George Stephen son on London and Birmingham railway, came into a fortune and gave up busine ; resided at Bristol, at Hampstead and from 1848 at Oatlands park, Surrey; made a study of birds’ eggs and collected specimens in Norway 1833; made a collection of diurnal lepidoptera, paid travellers to search for them in all parts of the world and gave £350 for a single specimen 1848, etc.; member of Entomological soc. 1846, the Zoological 1859 and the Linnean 1862; author of British Oology being illustrations of the eggs of British birds with figures of each species Newcastle 3 vols. 1833–42; Coloured illustrations of the eggs of British birds 2 vols. 1846, 3 ed. 2 vols. 1856; Illustrations of diurnal lepidoptera 2 vols. 1863–78; Description of 100 new species of hesperediæ 1867. d. Oatlands park 28 May 1878. bur. Walton-on-Thames. Left his lepidoptera, stuffed birds, pictures and water colours to Br. Museum, now in Cromwell road; his books and £30,000 to Nat. Hist. Soc. Newcastle, and money to the Müller institute Bristol. Academy 8 June 1878 p. 512; Nature xviii , 196–7 (1878).