William Buckler
1814–84
Artist and entomologist. Studied at the Royal Academy of Arts; became a portraitist. Illustrated entomological works, devoting most of the last twenty-five years of his life to Larvae of the British butterflies and moths, which was published posthumously in nine volumes between 1886 and 1901.
Sources
ODNB
Salmon 2000, pp. 157–9.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Salmon, Michael A. 2000. The Aurelian legacy: British butterflies and their collectors. With additional material by Peter Marren and Basil Harley. Colchester: Harley Books.
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