page_title: James Charles Dale
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: James Charles Dale / Career
caption_attribution_description: A record shot. Despite being dismissed as "Europe's most boring butterfly", I was still excited to get a lifer.
context_page_description: James Charles Dale was an English naturalist who devoted almost all of his adult life to entomology.
context_section_description: Dale received his education at Wimborne Grammar School and Sidney Sussex College Cambridge University receiving his MA in 1818. He was a magistrate. On one occasion a cloud of butterflies was released into Dale's magistrate court. His most famous discovery was the Lulworth skipper.
  He was a friend of James Francis Stephens, frequently mentioned in that author's Illustrations of British Entomology and of John Curtis who refers to him frequently in his British Entomology. Another close friend was the Irish entomologist Alexander Henry Haliday. The references are mainly to Coleoptera though Dale worked on all Orders.
  His first note, on Lepidoptera was published, in the Magazine of Natural History in 1830. This was followed by some 83 further notes and articles covering a wide range of topics.
  He was elected a member of the first Entomological Society of London on 25 June 1822. He was appointed High Sheriff of Dorset for 1843.
caption: Lulworth skipper
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