Gerald Edwin Hamilton Barrett-Hamilton

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Major Gerald Edwin Hamilton Barrett-Hamilton (1871[1] – 17 January 1914) was a British/Irish natural historian, co-author with M. A. C. Hinton of A History of British Mammals,[2] which remained "the most thorough, accurate and scientific publication" on British mammals until the 1950s.[3]

Biography

Barrett-Hamilton was born in India of Irish parents, who returned and settled at Kilmanock in

Instructor of Musketry on 28 February 1900,[6] and saw active service in South Africa 1901–1902.[7] After the war ended in June 1902, he left Cape Town in the SS Dunera in late September 1902, arriving at Southampton early the following month.[8] He was High Sheriff of Wexford in 1904 and later worked in the Natural History Museum, London, and worked on various Government investigations. He married Maud Charlotte Eland, of Ireland. They had six children.[7]

In his work as a natural historian, he described a great number of new species of small mammal on the islands around the British Isles, notably the house mice and field mice of

Irish Naturalist journal.[1] His papers and correspondence are held at the University of Manitoba.[11]

He died on 17 January 1914 of pneumonia following a heart attack on

South Georgia Island in the South Antarctic whilst leading a British Government investigation into the whale and seal fisheries there.[12]

Michael Nesbitt (Barrett-Hamilton's grandson) had a copper plaque made with Barrett-Hamilton's photo engraved and sent it to the Norwegian Anglican Church in Grytvike, to be hung with prior permission from the South Georgia Trust.

Works

  • 'On a collection of mice (Mus hirtensis and M. muralis) from St Kilda', Annals of Scottish Natural History, 57 (1906), 1–4.
  • A History of British Mammals, part completed to vol 21, 1910–1921

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1914.tb06639.x
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  2. ^ A History of British Mammals, 1910
  3. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1989.tb01568.x
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  4. ^ "Barrett-Hamilton, Gerald Edwin Hamilton (BRT891GE)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  5. ISBN 9781000124491
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  6. ^ "No. 27169". The London Gazette. 27 February 1900. p. 1355.
  7. ^
    JSTOR 1778396
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  8. ^ "The Army in South Africa – Troops returning Home". The Times. No. 36883. London. 26 September 1902. p. 4.
  9. ^ Barrett-Hamilton, G.E.H. (1906). "On a collection of mice (Mus hirtensis and M. muralis) from St Kilda". Annals of Scottish Natural History. 57: 1–4.
  10. S2CID 46424262
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  11. ^ "G.E.H. Barrett-Hamilton fonds". Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 5 January 2009.
  12. JSTOR 4072001
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Further reading

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