George Thomas Rudd (c.1795 - 4 March 1847)
[M. Lawson Thompson, ]
Report on the Coleoptera observed in Cleveland
' in Proceedings of the Cleveland Naturalists Field Club 1903-04, p. 186. was an
English
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priest
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and
entomologist mainly interested in
Coleoptera.
Rudd was probably born in North Yorkshire 1794 or 1795. He studied at
St John's College, Cambridge, where he got a B.A. before 1818 and a M.A. before 1821. He was ordained as deacon in 1818 and as priest in 1819 by
John Fisher
John Fisher (c. 19 October 1469 – 22 June 1535) was an English Catholic bishop, cardinal, and theologian. Fisher was also an academic and Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He was canonized by Pope Pius XI.
Fisher was executed by o ...
. He served as curate at
Horsted Keynes
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(West Sussex) from 1818, at
Shipton Bellinger (Hampshire) from 1819, and at
Kimpton (Hampshire) from 1821.
[ In 1833 he was appointed vicar of ]Sockburn
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Today, all that remains of the village is ...
(North Yorkshire),[Rudd, George Thomas (1818 - 1833)]
at Clergy of the Church of England Database
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The database project began in 1999 with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and is ongoing as a ...
. where he lived for a number of years at Worsall Hall near Yarm
Yarm, also referred to as Yarm-on-Tees, is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England. It was previously a port town before the industry moved down the River Tees to more accessible settlements n ...
.[
He was a typical ]parson-naturalist
A parson-naturalist was a cleric (a "parson", strictly defined as a country priest who held the living of a parish, but the term is generally extended to other clergy), who often saw the study of natural science as an extension of his religious wo ...
, who developed a great interest in insects.
His captures of beetles are mentioned by James Francis Stephens
James Francis Stephens (16 September 1792 – 22 December 1852) was an English entomologist and naturalist. He is known for his 12 volume '' Illustrations of British Entomology'' (1846) and the ''Manual of British Beetles'' (1839).
Early l ...
, John Curtis and Alexander Henry Haliday and he collected insects with George Samouelle. Rudd published six notes on insects in the ''Entomologist’s Magazine '' and other journals between 1834 and 1846 some of which dealt with beetles. The last described ''Haltica dispar'' as a new species. (Zoologist, 4, 1846, p. 1517). He was a fellow of the Linnean Society
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and in 1833, he was a founder of the Entomological Society of London
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The society was founded in 1833 as the Entomological Society of Londo ...
, later Royal Entomological Society
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The society was founded in 1833 as the Entomological Society of Londo ...
. He died on 4 March 1847 in London at the age of 52.
The G. T. Rudd Collection is in Yorkshire Museum
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History
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, York
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.
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English entomologists
1790s births
1847 deaths
Fellows of the Linnean Society of London
Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge