Henry Doubleday was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 entomologist and ornithologist.

Henry Doubleday was the eldest son of Quaker and grocer Benjamin Doubleday and his wife Mary of Epping

Epping

Epping is a small market town and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of the County of Essex, England. It is located north-east of Loughton, south of Harlow and north-west of Brentwood....

, Essex

Essex

Essex is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England, and one of the home counties. It is located to the northeast of Greater London. It borders with Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent to the South and London to the south west...

. He and his brother Edward Doubleday

Edward Doubleday

Edward Doubleday was an English entomologist mainly interested in Lepidoptera.He is best known for Doubleday, E. & Westwood, J.O. The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera: comprising their generic characters, a notice of their habits and transformations, and a catalogue of the species of each genus....

 spent their childhood collecting natural history specimens in Epping Forest

Epping Forest

Epping Forest is an area of ancient woodland in south-east England, straddling the border between north-east Greater London and Essex. It is a former royal forest, and is managed by the City of London Corporation....

. He lived at the same time as his cousin Henry Doubleday (1810-1902)

Henry Doubleday (1810-1902)

Henry Doubleday was an English scientist and horticulturist of Coggeshall in Essex.Henry Doubleday was the son of William Doubleday and his wife Hannah Corder. His father was a shopkeeper in Coggeshall; the family were all Quakers...

 the scientist

Scientist

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 and horticulturist

Horticulture

Horticulture is the industry and science of plant cultivation including the process of preparing soil for the planting of seeds, tubers, or cuttings. Horticulturists work and conduct research in the disciplines of plant propagation and cultivation, crop production, plant breeding and genetic...

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He was the author of the first catalogue of British butterflies and moths, Synonymic List of the British Lepidoptera (1847–50). He named a number of new species of moth

Moth

A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...

, including Pigmy Footman, Ashworth's Rustic

Ashworth's Rustic

Ashworth’s Rustic is a species of moth. Its colouring is blue/grey and it is mainly nocturnal.-Life cycle:There is one generation in Britain from mid June to August. They are in their larval stage from August to late May of June the next year, feeding mainly by night, but sometimes basking by day...

 and the Marsh Oblique-barred. His moth collection remains intact at the Natural History Museum

Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum is one of three large museums on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, England . Its main frontage is on Cromwell Road...

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External links

• Internet Archive Digitised version of Andrew Murray
  Andrew Murray (botanist)
  Andrew Dickson Murray FRSE FLS was a Scottish lawyer, botanist, zoologist and entomologist. Murray studied insects which caused crop damage, specialising in the Coleoptera...
  
  Catalogue of the Doubleday collection of Lepidoptera ([188-])Part I. British Lepidoptera.Part II. European Lepidoptera. South Kensington Museum, London. Bethnal Green Branch.