George Hampson

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.

[1] He then commenced work on The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths (four volumes, 1892–1896).

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