[[Image:Britishentomologyvolume8Plate429.jpg|thumb|230px|''Helophilus ruddii'' a hoverfly named to honour Rudd in ''British Entomology'']] '''George Thomas Rudd ''' (c.1795 - 4 March 1847)<ref name=thompson>M. Lawson Thompson, ''[http://www.mocavo.com/Proceedings-of-the-Cleveland-Naturalists-Field-Club-1903-04-Volume-2/136859/240 Report on the Coleoptera observed in Cleveland]'' in Proceedings of the Cleveland Naturalists Field Club 1903-04, p. 186.</ref> was an English priest and entomologist mainly interested in Coleoptera.
Rudd was probably born in North Yorkshire<ref>His brother L. Rudd (see M. Lawson Thompson) lived at Marton Lodge (see James Francis Stephens, 1828, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=QllHAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA177&lpg=PA177 Illustrations of British Entomology]'', Vol 1, p. 177.) which was built by Bartholomew Rudd (d. 1809) in 1786 (see [http://www.captcook-ne.co.uk/ccne/cookne/marton.htm Marton, Middlesbrough Cooks Birthplace] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150301040743/http://www.captcook-ne.co.uk/ccne/cookne/marton.htm |date=2015-03-01 }}) and then owned by his son, also named Bartholomew (d. 1829) (see [http://archives.northyorks.gov.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo==%27ZLT%27) Rudd Family Papers] on North Yorkshire County Council), possibly the father of G.T. and L. Rudd.</ref><ref>There was also a brother Thomas Smith Rudd of Redcar who donated George Thomas Rudd's collection to the Yorkshire Philosophical Society in 1850 (see [https://archive.org/stream/annualreportofyo50york/annualreportofyo50york_djvu.txt Record of the Council of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society Feb. 1851]).</ref> 1794 or 1795.<ref>As he died at age 52 on March 4th 1842 according to M. Lawson Thompson.</ref> He studied at St John's College, Cambridge, where he got a B.A. before 1818 and a M.A. before 1821. He was ordained as deacon in 1818 and as priest in 1819 by John Fisher. He served as curate at Horsted Keynes (West Sussex) from 1818, at Shipton Bellinger (Hampshire) from 1819, and at Kimpton (Hampshire) from 1821.<ref name=cced/> In 1833 he was appointed vicar of Sockburn (North Yorkshire),<ref name=cced>[http://db.theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/persons/DisplayPerson.jsp?PersonID=65314 Rudd, George Thomas (1818 - 1833)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141230143512/http://db.theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/persons/DisplayPerson.jsp?PersonID=65314 |date=2014-12-30 }} at Clergy of the Church of England Database.</ref> where he lived for a number of years at Worsall Hall near Yarm.<ref name=thompson/>
He was a typical parson-naturalist, who developed a great interest in insects.
His captures of beetles are mentioned by James Francis Stephens, John Curtis and Alexander Henry Haliday and he collected insects with George Samouelle. Rudd published six notes on insects in the ''Entomologist’s Magazine '' and other journals between 1834 and 1846 some of which dealt with beetles. The last described ''Haltica dispar'' as a new species. (Zoologist, 4, 1846, p. 1517). He was a fellow of the Linnean Society<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2415253 |title=List of the Linnean Society of London |date=1831 |publisher=Linnean Society of London |language=en}}</ref> and in 1833, he was a founder of the Entomological Society of London, later Royal Entomological Society. He died on 4 March 1847 in London at the age of 52.<ref name="thompson" />
The G. T. Rudd Collection is in Yorkshire Museum, York.
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