Claude Morley was an English antiquary and entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera and Diptera.
Background
Morley was born in Blackheath and educated at Beccles, King"s School, Peterborough and Epsom College. After living on the Isle of Wight in his father"s house at Cowes, he moved in 1892 to Ipswich where worked with John E. Taylor, then Curator of the Ipswich museum.
Career
Morley worked first on, then Hemiptera and then Ichneumonidae. His magnum opus was the five volume Ichneumons of Great Britain (1903-1914). Morley"s collection of mainly Suffolk material covering the period 1898-1951 is in Ipswich Museum.It occupies c.260 drawers.
There are Cerambycids bearing his name in the Kauffmann collection at Manchester.
Morley was a Fellow of the Entomological Society of London 1896.