Roy Crowson

R. Crowson (center) with two colleagues at the International Congress of Coleopterology of Barcelona, September 1989 Roy Albert Crowson (22 November 1914 in Hadlow, Kent – 13 May 1999) was an English biologist who specialised in the taxonomy of beetles. He was curator at the Tunbridge Wells Museum, and then lectured at the Zoology Department of the University of Glasgow. The beetle genus Crowsoniella is named in his honour.

Life Crowson was born on 22 November in Hadlow, Kent. He was educated at the Judd School, in Tonbridge and then at Imperial College, London University where he completed his Ph.D. in 1937. Some of his collected specimens are in Te Papa, the national museum of New Zealand.

A festschrift honouring Crowson was given in 1995.

Works The natural classification of the families of Coleoptera, Nathaniel Lloyd & Co., Ltd., London, 1955. Coleoptera: introduction and key to families, Handbooks for the identification of British insects, Royal Entomological Society of London, London, 1957. pdf Classification and biology, Heinemann Educational Books Ltd, London, 1970. Biology of the Coleptera, Academic Press, 1981.