Claude Morley


Claude Morley was an English antiquary and entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera and Diptera.
Morley was born in Blackheath and educated at Beccles, King's School, Peterborough and Epsom College. After living on the Isle of Wight in his father's house at Cowes, he moved in 1892 to Ipswich where worked with John E. Taylor, then Curator of the Ipswich museum.
He married in 1904, living in Monk Soham until his death. He had no radio, telephone, or electricity in his house.E.A. Elliott was a close friend as was Arthur Chitty.
Morley worked first on Coleoptera, then Hemiptera and then Ichneumonidae. His magnum opus was the five volume Ichneumons of Great Britain.
Morley's collection of mainly Suffolk material covering the period 1898-1951 is in Ipswich Museum. It occupies c.260 drawers. There are Cerambycids bearing his name in the Kauffmann collection at Manchester.
Morley was a Fellow of the Entomological Society of London 1896.

Works

Hemiptera

Morley also wrote many articles in the Entomologist's monthly magazine, Entomologist's Record and Journal of variation, and other periodicals, and he was on the editorial staff of the Entomologist from 1909.