{{Short description|English entomologist (1863–1940)}}
'''Walter Dannatt''' (1863–21 February 1940)<ref name="Groll">{{cite book |last1=Groll |first1=E K |title=Biographies of the Entomologists of the World. – Online database, version 8, |date=2017 |publisher=Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut |location=Müncheberg |url=https://sdei.senckenberg.de/biografies |access-date=27 February 2026}}</ref> was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera,<ref>Newman, L. H. 1940: [Dannatt, W.] ''The Entomologist'', Dorking 73, pp. 96.</ref> amassing a collection of over 18,000 specimens, principally from Jamaica and the Amazon.<ref name=Pemberley>{{Cite web |title=Collection of 30 watercolour drawings of 200 exotic butterflies by Dannatt, Annie M. |url=https://www.pemberleybooks.com/product/collection-of-30-watercolour-drawings-of-200-exotic-butterflies/38162/ |access-date=27 February 2026 |website=www.pemberleybooks.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=73 year old butterfly hunter back in London after trip to Amazon jungles . Photo shows , Mr Walter Dannatt mounting a huge moth at his home . 30 October 1935 Stock Photo - Alamy |url=https://www.alamy.com/73-year-old-butterfly-hunter-back-in-london-after-trip-to-amazon-jungles-photo-shows-mr-walter-dannatt-mounting-a-huge-moth-at-his-home-30-october-1935-image359649748.html |access-date=27 February 2026 |website=www.alamy.com |language=en}}</ref> Dannatt was a natural history dealer and a member of the Entomological Society of London.
He lived in Lee and in Blackheath,<ref>{{cite web |title=1 letter and 1 postcard to Karl Jordan from Walter Dannatt, Donnington, 75 Vanbrugh Park, Blackheath, London, England, United Kingdom |url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=DF%2FTR%2F1%2F1%2F26%2F134 |website=Natural History Museum Archives |access-date=27 February 2026}}</ref> both in southeast London (the Dannatt family ran a grocery business in Blackheath).<ref name=FT>{{Cite web |last=Woodcock |first=Victoria |date=2 September 2022 |title=At home with Just William... and his mum - Inside the extraordinary art-filled house of Adrian Dannatt and his 97-year-old mother Joan |url=https://www.ft.com/content/c09a22d4-0a5b-49f2-87c3-f6bcfa169929 |access-date=27 February 2026 |website=Financial Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=19 February 2021 |title=Trevor Dannatt obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/feb/19/trevor-dannatt-obituary |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230419073156/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/feb/19/trevor-dannatt-obituary |archive-date=19 April 2023 |website=The Guardian}}</ref> His sister Annie M. Dannatt, who attended the Blackheath School of Art,<ref>''Arts & Crafts Magazine'' Vol 1-2, 1904</ref> illustrated butterflies from his collection.<ref name=FT/><ref name=Pemberley/> Painter George Dannatt and architect Trevor Dannatt<ref name=FT/> were nephews.
==Publications== *Dannatt, W., 1904. Descriptions of three new butterflies. ''The Entomologist'' 37: 173–174, pl. 7. The three species described are :- ''Delias hempeli'', ''Doxocopa linda godmani'' and ''Parantica dannatti'' - Dannatt's tiger.
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