Kenneth Morton

Kenneth J. Morton (1858 – 29 January 1940)[1] was a Scottish entomologist, with a particular interest in the study of Odonata and Neuroptera.

[13][14] Later in their marriage, Morton was sometimes accompanied by Agnes on entomological fieldwork e.g. on trips to Norway in 1900[15] and Switzerland in 1904,[16][17] and he noted that she was a skilled insect collector in her own right.

[15] Morton was a friend of James Joseph Francis Xavier King,[18] and they went on entomological study trips together, e.g. to Killarney, Ireland in August 1887[19] and Rannoch in the Scottish Highlands in June 1889.

"[21] Many of Morton's collecting localities were in Scotland: in one paper he commented on the relative increase in smoke pollution when he had needed to move himself for a period in 1896 from Carluke to Uddingston (where his wife Agnes's family came from),[9] and how this had influenced which insects he was able to find, however despite his assumption that the river Clyde would have picked up more impurities further along its route, he found that Trichoptera were still plentiful.

[7][24] Morton and his wife Agnes, who died in 1943, are laid to rest together in a Freeland family plot at Old Carluke Cemetery in South Lanarkshire.