George Hampson
Sir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet 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, 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 and The Lepidoptera Heterocera of Ceylon as parts 8 and 9 of . He then commenced work on The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths.
Albert C. L. G. Günther offered him a position as assistant at the museum in March 1895, and, after succeeding 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.
He was married to Minnie Frances Clark-Kennedy on 1 June 1893 and had three children.
