Edward Saunders (entomologist)

Edward Saunders, FRS (22 March 1848 – 6 February 1910) was an English entomologist, who specialised in Coleoptera, Hemiptera and Hymenoptera.

Saunders was born at East Hill, Wandsworth, on 22 March 1848, the youngest of seven children of William Wilson Saunders[1] (known for sponsoring the collecting expeditions of Alfred Russel Wallace), who was a treasurer for the Linnean Society.

He joined the business of his father at Lloyds Bank, studying entomology in his spare time.

His earliest publication was Coleoptera at Lowestoft in the first volume of the Entomologists’ Monthly Magazine when he was sixteen years old.

In order to render the synonymies ... as reliable as possible, he undertook the only foreign tour of his life, visiting in succession all the chief museums of Europe and examining personally the types".