John Burrell

Who was John Burrell?

John Burrell was an English entomologist.

The Reverend John Burrell, artium magister was the vicar of the Norfolk parish of Letheringsett. He published a Prodromus lepidopterorum Britannicorum and several papers on the moths, beetles and true bugs of Norfolk. He was a Fellow of the Linnean Society and a Fellow of the Entomological Society of London. He contributed three papers to the first volume of the Transactions of this society.

John Burrell was a close friend of John Curtis, William Kirby, Simon Wilkin and William Spence who all shared his interest in entomology.