Sir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet (14 January 1860 – 15 October 1936) was an English entomologist. Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and

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. He travelled to

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to become a tea-planter in the

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of the Madras presidency (now

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), where he became interested in moths and butterflies. When he returned to England he became a voluntary worker at the

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, where he wrote ''The Lepidoptera of the Nilgiri District'' (1891) and ''The Lepidoptera Heterocera of Ceylon'' (1893) as parts 8 and 9 of ''Illustrations of Typical Specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera of the British Museum''. He then commenced work on ''

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: Moths'' (four volumes, 1892–1896).

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offered him a position as assistant at the museum in March 1895, and, after succeeding to his

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in 1896, he was promoted to acting assistant keeper in 1901. He then worked on a ''Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum'' (15 volumes, 1898–1920). He was married to Minnie Frances Clark-Kennedy on 1 June 1893 and had three children.

References

*''The Natural History Museum at South Kensington'' William T. Stearn *

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hampson, George, 10th Baronet English taxonomists 1860 births 1936 deaths English lepidopterists Employees of the Natural History Museum, London Naturalists of British India Baronets in the Baronetage of England Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford People educated at Charterhouse School British people in colonial India 19th-century British zoologists 20th-century British zoologists