George William Chaster (1863 – 5 May 1910) was an English medical doctor, entomologist, and conchologist.
He trained as a doctor at University College, Liverpool, winning the Lyon-Jones Scholarship in 1882 and was appointed the Holt Tutorial Fellow in 1889.
[2] Along with Irish naturalists, including Robert Welch, Chaster dredged around Rathlin Ireland in 1896 and 1897.
The foraminifer species Rotalliella chasteri described by Edward Heron-Allen and Arthur Earland in 1913 under the genus Discorbina is named after him.
Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales holds his collection of around 11,000 insects,[3] and 2,890 lots of molluscs.