Harry Britten

Harry Britten (3 September 1870 – 31 January 1954) was a British entomologist who worked at the Manchester Museum.

A namesake son (1894-1976) also took an interest in entomology and specialized in flies of the family Tephritidae.

Britten was born in Whiteparish, Wiltshire, and grew up in Scotland and later Penrith, Cumbria, where his father Henry became a gamekeeper at Skirtwith Abbey owned by E.W.

He was a keen collector but also worked meticulously, described the Ptiliidae collected by the Percy Sladen Expedition to Seychelles, revised the genus Ptenidium, and co-wrote a book on the pests of stored products with Hayhurst.

He introduced various techniques, such as the use of bird pin-feathers mounted on wooden handle to set delicate specimens[2] and the storage of acari slides in envelopes along with a note describing provenance and other information.