 Gerald Edwin Hamilton Barrett-Hamilton

Major Gerald Edwin Hamilton Barrett-Hamilton (1871–1914) was a notable British/Irish natural historian, co-author with M. A. C. Hinton of "A History of British Mammals", which remained "the most thorough, accurate and scientific publication" on British mammals until the 1950s.Barrett-Hamilton was born in India of Irish parents, who returned and settled at Kilmanock in County Wexford when the boy was three years old.