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May 01, 1891 Died on 28 Jan 1938 (aged 46)
British entomologist
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About Gerald Augustus Harold Bedford
- Gerald Augustus Harold Bedford ((1891-05-00)May 1891 – (1938-01-28)28 January 1938) was a British entomologist of the 20th century who specialised in ticks from South Africa. He first worked at the British Museum of Natural History with F.V.
- Theobald and then was nominated as entomologist at the Division of Veterinary Services of the University of Pretoria in Onderstepoort on the 20.
- There, he studied vertebrate parasites (mites, ticks and lice).
- He started to collect species of ticks for the National Tick Collection in 1912, with nymphs of Aponomma exornatum collected in Onderstepoort.
- In 1920, he was promoted Research Officer in Onderstepoort.
- He died in 1938 at the age of 46.
