George Herbert Carpenter

Reverend George Herbert Carpenter (1865–1939) was a British naturalist and entomologist, born in the Peckham district of southeast London in 1865, and died in Belfast on 22 January 1939. His main interests were in the study of insects and arachnids, zoogeography, and economic zoology.

Education and career Carpenter was privately educated as a youth, and studied at King's College London, earning a Bachelor of Science degree at London University and a Doctor of Science degree from Queen's University Belfast. He was a member of the general synod of the Church of Ireland, and was ordained deacon (1926) and priest (1927), where he served at Christ Church, West Didsbury, Manchester (1926–1934), and Saint Augustine's, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire (1935–1937). He is buried in Guildford Cemetery in Surrey.

Publications Carpenter contributed to a range of scientific journals and to Encyclopædia Britannica, and wrote five books: Insects: Their Structure & Life, A Primer of Entomology. London: J. M. Dent, 1899. Catalogue of the Fishes of New York (with Tarleton Hoffman Bean). New York State Museum Bulletin No. 60; Zoology, No. 9. Albany: University of the State of New York, 1903. The Life-story of Insects. Cambridge: University press, and G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1913. Insect Transformation. London: Methuen, 1921. The Biology of Insects. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928.

Personal Carpenter was a son of George and Phoebe (née Hooper) Carpenter. In 1891, he married Emma Eason of Dublin, with whom he had two sons.