Dr. Wilson Mayhew, Entomologist

Dr. Mayhew is at his core, a slightly older, real-world, time-shifted
version of Wilson from Sarge's Vodacce campaign.  He still comes from a
lower-class background, but has bettered himself through education--I
don't really know how class worked in England in the 1920's, but
assuming there's a rise in the new middle-class, Wilson's square in the
middle of that trend.  He enlisted in the army in the Great War, but was
rejected due to a heart murmur that has since turned out to be benign.
He worked with grain insects, and worked closely with the army in
<insert name of English town here> where large quantities of grain were
stored during the war, and his investigative techniques were
instrumental in discovering a weevil infestation that could have wiped
out the entire store if not caught in time, as happened in <insert name
of other English town here>.  Since the war, he received his PhD for his
study of the migratory patterns of <some butterfly>, the study of which
took him around the world.

I'm not entirely sure what his personality is yet; I know he gets
animated when talking about bugs, and isn't entirely comfortable around
women.  In fact, I'm considering a connection along those lines--though
he has dated a few women here and there so far, his extensive travel has
kept him too distant for the women he was attracted to, and none lasted
very long.  He's settled more at this point, with a teaching position at
<Cambridge?>, and (if she's not otherwise engaged) has started to court
NPC #5, Miss Hypatia Mallory.  Perhaps he knew her father from
somewhere?  You tell me whether it would make more sense to know him
through academia or through the military; either would work.

As far as connections to the rest of the group; I'll hold off until I
know who's going to be in it.  I'm free on the 5th, but I'm *not* free
on the 12th (that's Ellric's Birthday party day ;-)

For solving mysteries, I envision him being able to observe the local
insects for clues (and I expect to make up facts here, assuming that's
OK--say, if we suspect the murdered man might have been poisoned with X
before being hit on the head, I'll hypothesize, "Aha!  Ants are usually
attracted to blood, but are repelled by X.  If we examine the blood
stains, if there are no ant trails around them, that will mean our
hypothesis is true!".  Another tack might be to relate human activity to
analogues in the insect world (like Miss Marple : people in her
village).

Skills!

Superb:   Study of insect behavior
Great:    Well-travelled
Good:     Military (non-combat) connections
Fair:     Earthy roots
Mediocre: Wooing Women
Poor:     Forming long-term attachments
Terrible: Aim (why not?)