Horace Knight (

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1884–1920) was a natural history illustrator with the

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, noted particularly for his images in ''The Moths of the British Isles'' by

Richard South Richard South FRES (July 1846 – 28 March 1932) was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), particularly the smaller moths. Life and work South was born at Cochran Terrace in Marylebone, London, England ...

Biography

Knight, who lived at 16 Dafforne Road,

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, had a son, Edgar S. Knight, who also illustrated. Horace Knight retired from the British Museum in 1917 due to illness, at which point he had been producing drawings for William Lucas Distant for over 30 years, working for the chromo-lithographers and letter-press printers, West, Newman & Co. of Hatton Garden. Horace and his brother E. C. Knight worked together at West, Newman & Co. His work appeared in * Henry C. Lang : ''Rhopalocera Europae descripta et delineata / The butterflies of Europe described and figured.'', ''London, L. Reeve'' 1884 *

John Henry Leech John Henry Leech (5 December 1862 – 29 December 1900, Hurdcott House, Salisbury) was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. Leech was born of John and Elizabeth (née Ashworth) Leech in Bank Hall, near Preston, ...

: ''Butterflies from China, Japan and Corea'', ''Transactions of the Entomological Society of London'' 1901 *

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: ''The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Butterflies'' 1905-7 *

William Lucas Distant William Lucas Distant (12 November 1845 Rotherhithe – 4 February 1922 Wanstead) was an English entomologist. Biography Early years Distant was born in Rotherhithe, the son of whaling captain Alexander Distantspecies:B.R. Subba Rao, Rao, B.R ...

: ''Insecta Transvaaliensia'' 1924 *William John Stokoe ed.: ''The Observer's Book of British Butterflies'' 1969 *Seitz, Adalbert.: "Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde". 1906-1940. Alfred Kernen Verlag His collaborators were entomologist

Carl Plötz Carl Plötz (1814 – 12 August 1886, Greifswald) was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera Lepidoptera ( ) or lepidopterans is an order (biology), order of winged insects which includes butterflies and moths. About 180,000 sp ...

, artist Alice Ellen Prout and entomologist Humphrey Drummond Swain.

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Natural history illustrators 19th-century births 20th-century deaths English illustrators People associated with the Natural History Museum, London People from Tooting {{Illustrator-stub