Background
HAMPSON, George Francis was born on January 14, 1860. Succeeded uncle, 9th Baronet 1896.
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George Francis Hampson
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Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford.
Career
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 then worked on a Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum (15 vols, 1898–1920).
Connections
Spouse 1893, Minnie P"rances, daughter of late Colonel Clark-Kennedy, C. B., of Knockgray, North.B. Heir: Dennys Francis.
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United Kingdom