About: Gerald Augustus Harold Bedford

Gerald Augustus Harold Bedford (May 1891 – 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 collected in Onderstepoort. In 1920, he was promoted Research Officer in Onderstepoort. He died in 1938 at the age of 46.