Roy Crowson

Roy Albert Crowson (22 November 1914 in Hadlow, Kent – 13 May 1999) was an English biologist who specialised in the taxonomy of beetles.

He lectured at the Zoology Department of the University of Glasgow from 1949.

He collected beetles and their larvae from around the world and studied the relationships between them.

His collections of British Coleoptera are in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, and his collections of world families, including large quantities of microscope slides and dissections, in the Natural History Museum, London.

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R. Crowson (center) with two colleagues at the International Congress of Coleopterology of Barcelona, September 1989