George Thomas

Education

He studied at Street John"s College, Cambridge where he got a Bachelor of Arts before 1818 and a Master of Arts

Career

Rudd was probably born in North Yorkshire 1794 or 1795. before 1821. He was ordained as deacon in 1818 and as priest in 1819 by John Fisher. He served as curate at Horsted Keynes (West Sussex) from 1818, at Shipton Bellinger (Hampshire) from 1819, and at Kimpton (Hampshire) from 1821.

In 1833 he was appointed vicar of Sockburn (North Yorkshire), where he lived for a number of years at Worsall Hall near Yarm.

His captures of beetles are mentioned by James Francis Stephens, 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 died on March 4, 1847 in London at the age of 52.

The G. T. Rudd Collection is in Yorkshire Museum, New York

Achievements

• He was a fellow of the Linnean Society and in 1833, he was a founder of the Entomological Society of London, later Royal Entomological Society.