Walter Dannatt

Walter Dannatt (1863–21 February 1940) was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera, amassing a collection of over 18,000 specimens, principally from Jamaica and the Amazon. Dannatt was a natural history dealer and a member of the Entomological Society of London.

He lived in Lee and in Blackheath, both in southeast London (the Dannatt family ran a grocery business in Blackheath). His sister Annie M. Dannatt, who attended the Blackheath School of Art, illustrated butterflies from his collection. Painter George Dannatt and architect Trevor Dannatt were nephews.

Publications

• Dannatt, W., 1904. Descriptions of three new butterflies. The Entomologist 37: 173–174, pl. 7. The three species described are :- Delias hempeli, Doxocopa linda godmani and Parantica dannatti - Dannatt's tiger.

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