Percy Ireland Lathy

Percy Ireland Lathy and other entomologists at the Hill Museum in 1920

Percy Ireland Lathy (1874 in Pulborough- 8 September 1943 in Vittel) was an English entomologist. He was a friend of James John Joicey and associated with Joicey's Hill Museum. He lived sometime at Tillington.

Lathy was first Assistant to William Watkins, in Eastbourne then Curator for Herbert Jordan Adams in Enfield (this collection is now in the Natural History Museum, London). At this time on Adams behalf he collected in the West Indies (especially Jamaica and South America and employed collectors who were sent to Peru and Dutch New Guinea. He also acquired the Honrath and van de Poll collections for Adams. After Adams death in 1921 he worked for the Le Moult dealership in Paris then for Aimée Fournier de Horrack. Aimée Fournier de Horrack was a leading figure in Literary and musical circles and had a private butterfly collection containing very rare and expensive species of Morpho, Agrias,Catagramma, Prepona, Papilionidae, Ornithoptera, Charaxes, Riodininae and Lycaenidae. The Aimée Fournier collection is now in Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. "L'essentiel des insectes [Parides] provient de collections privées comme celle, classée monument historique et riche en papillons exotiques, de Mme Aimée Fournier de Horrack".

Lathy lived for some years in Paris at 90 Boulevard Malesherbes (Aimée Fournier's address) and then at 70, boulevard Auguste Blanqui and after 1928 in New York. He was a specialist in Lepidoptera. Lathy was a Member of the Société Entomologique de France (presented by Eugène Le Moult), the Entomological Society of London, the Zoological Society of London and the Entomological Society of America. After retirement Percy Lathy lived at Gagny Seine-et-Oise. He died in the internment camp in Vittel.

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