Frederick Bates (entomologist)
Frederick Bates was a British brewer and entomologist. He specialized in beetles and is known for his substantial collection of Tenebrionoidea. Frederick DuCane Godman purchased this collection of 22,390 specimens; the collection was subsequently sold to the Natural History Museum, London in 1881 and 1897. Until the 1890s, he collected beetle specimens from Great Britain; this collection was later owned by Basil Samuel Williams. Bates managed the Eagle Brewery in Leicester before co-founding the Leicester Brewing & Malting Co. in June 1890.
Bates was born in Leicester, on 18 November 1829, and died in Chiswick, on 6 October 1903, aged 73.