George Samouelle

George Samouelle (c. 1790–1846) was a curator in the British Museum (Natural History) of "no real scientific aptitude".

[1] Originally employed as a bookseller for Longman & Co.,[2] Samouelle joined the Natural History Museum at the same time as William Elford Leach.

[1] Twenty years later, in 1840, after neglecting his work, drinking, insulting his superiors, and on one occasion, removing the labels from Adam White's specimens, Samouelle was sacked.

[2] Samouelle was primarily interested in Lepidoptera but also wrote A nomenclature of British Entomology, or a catalogue of above 4000 species of the Classes Crustacea, Myriapoda, Spiders, Mites and insects intended as labels for cabinets of Insects, etc., alphabetically arranged.

Samouelle was a founding member of the Entomological Club in 1826, along with Abraham Davies, Samuel Henson and Edward Newman.