George Henry Evans Hopkins

George Henry Evans Hopkins OBE (22 March 1898 – 20 February 1973) was an English entomologist.

Hopkins made major contributions in scientific research into three groups of insects - lice, fleas and mosquitoes. He was regarded as a great scientist, with multidisciplinary training and experiences.

George Henry Evans Hopkins (“Harry”) was born in Hanley in Staffordshire on 22 March 1898, the son of the Rev. George Blagden Hopkins, curate of Hanley, and his wife, Hannah Fletcher Evans.

He was educated at Upholland Grammar School in Orrell and Rossall School near Fleetwood in Lancashire (1911-1916). He sat and passed the Oxford and Cambridge Higher School Certificate in July 1916.

Great Britain having entered the First World War in August 1914, Hopkins was liable for full-time military service. He was accordingly attested as a Private in the 4th Battalion, the Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) (Territorial Force), but was immediately posted to the 10th Officer Cadet Battalion in Gailes, near Troon in Ayrshire on the West coast of Scotland. Having completed his training, he was discharged from the army on 24 January 1917 to take up a temporary commission in the South Lancashire Regiment. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment (T.F.) on 25 January 1917 and was posted to Park Hall Camp, Oswestry in Shropshire. After a prolonged period of ill health, he left for India in March 1918. He served with No. 4 Reserve Battalion (India) and the 1st Battalion, Madras Guards, Indian Defence Force. He did not proceed on warlike operations.

Service in Madras allowed Hopkins to pursue his interest in butterfly collecting. He sent a fellow-naturalist, Lieutenant-Colonel (later Brigadier) William Harry Evans, D.S.O., R.E., some specimens of a small Sarangesa (skipper) he had caught during the cold season at St. Thomas Mount in Madras, which were considered new to science and were ultimately described as Sarangesa hopkinsi, Evans 1921.

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