Richard Siddoway Bagnall was born in
Winlaton, England (near
Whickham) on 14 July 1884 to father Thomas W. Bagnall (1862-ca.1907) and mother Emily Florence Lane (ca. 1862-1932). He had
meningitis and
rheumatic fever as a child, and although his two brothers went to boarding school in their teenage years, Bagnall was sheltered by his family and educated privately at home. He published his first paper in 1906 on an unusual beetle that he collected from his cellar. == Entomological Research ==