Morice, Francis David (1849-1926)

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Francis David Morice (23 June 1849, St John's Wood - 21 September 1926, Woking) was an English entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera.

The Reverend Francis David Morice was a noted theologist and linguist who wrote Stories in Attic Greek ( London, Rivingtons, 1883), still in print.

His work in entomology involved extensive travel. Morice made collecting expeditions to Egypt, Algeria ,Asia Minor , Mesopotamia and Persia.

Morice was President of the Royal Entomological Society (1911-1912).

THE Rev. Francis David Morice, well known as an authority on certain families of Hymenoptera, died at Woking in his seventy-eighth year, on September 23. Educated at Winchester, from which he passed in 1866 to New College, Oxford, he gained high distinction as a classical scholar, and in 1874 was appointed a master at Rugby under Dr. Jex-Blake. Here he remained for twenty years, retiring ultimately in 1894 to Woking, where he took a house next to his great friend Edward Saunders, and devoted himself to entomological research.

PUBLICATIONS

 * [[Media:Morice 1915.pdf|Morice, F. D.; Durrant, J. H. 1915. The authorship and first publication of the "Jurinean" genera of Hymenoptera: being a reprint of a long-lost work by Panzer, with a translation into English, an introduction, and bibliographical and critical notes. Trans. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 1914: 339-436 PDF]]


 * Morice, F. D.; Durrant, J. H. 1917. Further notes on the "Jurinean" genera of Hymenoptera, correcting errors and omissions in a paper on that subject published in Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1914, pp. 339-436. Trans. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 1916: 432-442