Haliday, aged twelve, studied Classics first, then two years later took up Arithmetic and then two years after that Mathematics.

In the years from 1832 to 1840 Haliday collected insects in many parts of England, most often with Francis Walker and John Curtis at Darent, Southgate and other parts of Southern England. And with one or both of these lifelong friends, who shared his passion for picturesque scenery, he made collecting excursions to the Western Isles, Skye the Isle of Bute and other parts of Scotland ( 1834 ), South and West Ireland ( 1835 ) the Lake district ( 1836 ) and North Wales ( 1837 ).

Between the years of 1841 and 1848 Haliday seems to have spent most, if not all of his time away from Ireland, mainly in the Pisani family home in Lucca.

In the 1850s Haliday, once more resident in Dublin, where from 1854-1860 he was employed as a lecturer in Invertebrate Zoology at the University of Dublin. In these years also he edited parts of the Natural History Review, gave lectures at meetings of the Dublin University Zoological Association ( Trinity College ) and curated the insect collections at the same University.

' Beagle ' which had over three years explored the coasts of South America were published by Haliday as Descriptions etc., of the insects collected by Captain P. P.

In these years he began to collaborate with the Irish entomologist Alexander Henry Haliday with whom he was to co-found the Italian Entomological Society.

Five years later in 1826 Alexander Henry Haliday and William Thompson both joined.

He spent many summers in Italy, in Lucca with Haliday and in Turin with Maximilian Spinola.

Pray do me the favour to answer the different questions in this letter as I have no copy or memorandum. I shall hope to hear shortly from you and sincerely wishing you in a good old English Phrase a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Yours most faithfully, John Curtis " Curtis to Haliday 22 December 1832.

With Hermann Loew ( 1807 – 1879 ), Alexander Haliday was among the greatest dipterists of the 19th century and one of the most renowned British entomologists of the day.

After graduating and aged twenty Haliday went to Paris in late 1827 staying for most of a year.

Here he renewed his interest in geology ( Haliday, as did most educated people, had a well read copy of Charles Lyell's 3 volume book, Principles of Geology, in published between 1830 and 1833 ).

* Establishing rules for systematics and nomenclature, Haliday's refined analysis of the history of names and the natural groupings the names identified was a model of perfection and the rules Haliday suggested were taken up by all important continental and most British authors.

As a consequence when the Beagle docked at Falmouth on a stormy night in 1836 the Diptera and Hymenoptera were progressively dispatched ( between 1837 and 1839 ), to Haliday in Dublin by Francis Walker who was to describe most of the " Chalcidites " and some of the Diptera.

* The Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin, by Charles Haliday, edited by John P. Prendergast, published by Alex.

Haliday left the Belfast Academical Institution, and the family home in nearby Holywood at fifteen, for Dublin where he entered Trinity College in 1822, graduating in 1827.

Aside from its modern, metropolitan pleasures, Dublin had competing attractions for Haliday: the Dublin Society housing the Leske Collection, the Marsh Library and that of Trinity College, the Linnaean Garden ( a garden presenting the 24 classes of Carl Linnaeus ' and now part of the National Botanic Gardens ), the Opera and the Theatre Royal.

A manuscript in the Royal Irish Academy proves that Haliday gave a series of talks on fossil insects to the Dublin geologists illustrating this with specimens some from his own and the Universities collections.

Haliday was a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, the Microscopical Society of London the Entomological Society of London, the Linnean Society of London, the Dublin University Zoological Association, the Dublin University Geological Society the Stettin Entomological Society and La Società Entomologica Italiana or, in English, the Italian Entomological Society, of which he was a cofounder a Member of the Entomological Society of Stettin and a Member of the Galileiana Academy of Arts and Science.

A cultured man Haliday was quite at home at the opera and was an avid concert and theatre-goer in both Dublin and Lucca and, occasionally Rome.

With supplemental notes of the blind Fauna of Europe by A. H. Haliday, A. M., M. R. I. A., F. L. S., vice-president of the Dublin University Zoological and Botanical Association.

) in the Haliday collection, Dublin.

) in the Haliday collection, Dublin.

Aside from a collection of parrots from Australia, Malacca and Malabar, collected in the 1840s, William Haliday, whose name on the army register is spelled Halliday, is not known as a naturalist.

In 1858, Haliday obtained a confirmation of a coat of arms from the Ulster King of Arms.

Haliday possessed copies of Gyllenhal's Insecta Suecica: Coleoptera sive Eleuterata ( 1808 – 27 ), Erichson's Die Kafer der Mark Brandenburg 1837 and later works by Schaum, Kraatz, von Kiesenwetter, Redtenbacher, Fairmaire and Laboulbene. He had a comprehensive collection of Coleoptera and sought authoritatively named specimens from English and continental authorities.

Most of Haliday ’ s own material is from Ireland but there are also many Haliday specimens from England, Scotland, Italy and Sicily.

Letter from Hermann Loew to A. H. Haliday

Haliday and his lifelong friend Robert Templeton ( though they were to see nothing of each other after 1833 ) began their education at the Belfast Academical Institution.

Curtis to Haliday 13 February 1833

London, 1833 – 1842, Much of this work was collaborative with Haliday A. H who was the sole author of the sectional diagnoses.

Prior to the conception of Janus, Haliday and Harvey began screening both foreign and American films at the Brattle and proceeded to regularly fill the 300-seat venue.

Other wealthy entomologists often stayed at Mountsfield when visiting London, notably Alexander Henry Haliday and Deiterich Carl August Dohrn.

Alexander Henry Haliday was born at Clifden, Holywood, a small seaside town in County Down, Ireland on 21 November 1806, the eldest child of Dr William Haliday ( 1763-1836 ) and Marion Webster.

The Haliday family, were Protestant, though not religious, and clearly well-placed, holding of farmland in County Antrim valued at £ 3, 054. 00 in 1820.

His relative Charles Haliday ( 1789 – 1866 ) was an Irish historian and antiquary and Haliday's brother, William Robert ( d 1878 ), was sometime a lieutenant-colonel in the 36th Regiment of Foot quartered at Windsor, and later rose to the rank of lieutenant-general.

* Notton, D. G. and O ’ Connor, J. P., 2004 Type specimens of Diapriinae in the Haliday Collection at the Natural History Museum, Dublin-National Museum of Ireland ( Hym., Diapriidae ).

No matter what the context Haliday simply could not resist showing his literary and other prowess whenever the opputunity presented itself.

* Alexander Henry Haliday ( born 1806 ), Anglo Irish entomologist.

In 1836 Haliday promoted the genus to the taxonomic rank of order, renaming them Thysanoptera.

Janus Films was founded in 1956 by Bryant Haliday and Cyrus Harvey Jr., in the historic Brattle Theater, a Harvard Square landmark in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Having purchased the theater, Haliday, together with Harvey, converted the Brattle into a popular movie house for the showing of art films.

Perceiving potential in the film business, Haliday and Harvey moved into the New York market and commenced running the 55th Street Playhouse.

The two owners eventually sold Janus Films in 1965 following a decline in the American art film market, and in 1966 Haliday also sold the Brattle, whilst Harvey continued to manage the theater into the 1970s.

Haliday was also an actor, appearing in films such as Devil Doll, Curse of Simba and Tower of Evil.

Following the sale of Janus Films, Haliday relocated to Paris, France, where he continued work in both television and theatre until his death in 1996.

The Natural History of the Tineinae appeared in English, French, German and Latin editions, the Irish entomologist Alexander Henry Haliday doing the bulk of the translations.

Curtis was a lifelong friend of the Irish entomologist Alexander Henry Haliday and of the London entomologist Francis Walker. Curtis met Haliday in December 1827, ( following an exchange of letters and specimens ) Curtis ’ s second child was named Henry Alexander and Haliday was his godfather.

" To Alexander Henry Haliday, Esq., M. A., & c, of Belfast, whose extensive knowledge and munificent contributions, have so greatly enriched this work and whose kindness and friendship in its progress have been an uninterrupted source of gratification, to the author, this volume ( British Entomology VII Homoptera.

This work attributed to John Curtis was in fact co-authored by James Charles Dale, Francis Walker and Alexander Henry Haliday ; Haliday and Walker writing almost the whole of the sections on Diptera and parasitic Hymenoptera.