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William Henry Miskin (1842 – 1913) was an Australian solicitor, politician and entomologist.
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Born at Guildford, England, William Henry Miskin moved to Victoria, Australia at age 9 and later to Brisbane. He started collecting butterflies as a boy.
He trained as a solicitor and was active in local government, becoming the founding President of the Shire of Toowong in 1880.[1][2] Miskin Street in Toowong is named after him.[3]
He published numerous taxonomic papers on Lepidoptera from 1874 to 1892, including a description of Coscinocera hercules. In 1891 he published the Synonymical Catalogue of Butterflies of Australia.[1] He was the President of the Royal Society of Queensland in 1890 and a member of the board of trustees of the Queensland Museum.[1]
After having an affair with his domestic servant, he abandoned his wife. His wife divorced him in 1894.[4] She subsequently sold his collection and library were purchased by the Queensland Museum.[1]
Miskin worked as a solicitor in Rockhampton until his death in 1913, taking no further role in public life.[5]
- Miskin, William Henry (1891), Synonymical catalogue of the Lepidoptera Rhopalocera (butterflies) of Australia : with full bibliographical reference, including descriptions of some new species, J.C. Beal, Govt. Printer, retrieved 10 September 2017
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