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* '''"… conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty….in his efforts to get in casualties, repeatedly going forward through enemy barrages…"''' (Edinburgh Gazette March 11<sup>th</sup> 1918).
His first paper was published in 1899 (List of the Araneida of Port Erin and District. Proc. Liverp. Biol. Soc., 13, pp.66-68) and his last in 1938 (Notes on Arctic Spiders obtained in 1933-1936. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., (B) 107 (4), pp.543-551.). Many biographers state that he could have published more under his own name, but that he spent much of his time answering queries from others and helping them. Many textbooks and papers on spiders acknowledge his valuable assistance.
On his death in 1944 he donated his personal collection of around a hundred mid-eighteenth century drinking glasses to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkinson_Art_Gallery_and_Library Atkinson Museum, Southport] in memory of his son who, as noted above, was killed with the RAF in WW2. This somewhat apt, as prior to "Westcote" being built it was the site of an earlier public house. He also donated prints by Whistler and a Rembrandt.
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