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Sir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet (14 January 1860 – 15 October 1936) was an English 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 (four volumes, 1892–1896).

Albert C. L. G. Günther offered him a position as an assistant at the museum in March 1895, and, after succeeding to his baronetcy in 1896, he was promoted to the acting assistant keeper in 1901. He then worked on a Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum (15 volumes, 1898–1920).

Orthogrammica, a genus of moths of the family Erebidae, was erected by Hampson in 1926.

He married Minnie Frances Clark-Kennedy on 1 June 1893 and had three children.

References

1. Illustrations of typical specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the British Museum. Edited by Arthur Gardiner Butler. 1893.
2. "Orthogrammica". www.nic.funet.fi. Retrieved 22 December 2023.

• The Natural History Museum at South Kensington William T. Stearn ISBN 0-434-73600-7
• Leigh Rayment's list of baronets

External links

• Works by or about George Hampson at the Internet Archive

• English taxonomists
• 1860 births
• 1936 deaths
• English lepidopterists
• Employees of the Natural History Museum, London
• Naturalists from 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 English zoologists