George Hampson
For others of this name, see Hampson baronets. Sir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet (14 January 1860 – 15 October 1936) was a British entomologist. Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency (now Tamil Nadu), where he became interested in moths and butterflies. When he returned to England he became a voluntary worker at the Natural History Museum, 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 The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma . Moths (4 vols 1892-1896). Albert C. L. G. Günther offered him a position as Assistant at the Museum in March 1895, and after he succeeded to his baronetcy in 1896, he was promoted to acting Assistant Keeper in 1901. He ...