George Hudleston Hurlstone Hardy
George Hudleston Hurlstone Hardy (born 14 August 1883 in Twickenham, England; died 9 January 1966 in Austinmer, New South Wales, Australia) was an entomologist who studied flies. He specialized in Diptera, especially the families Asilidae, Muscidae, Calliphoridae and Sarcophagidae, and he collected many Australian flies.
Hardy was the eldest son of Matilda Margaret Hudleston and English engineer and amateur entomologist Major George Hurlstone Hardy, who wrote The Book of the Fly. He grew up in Twickenham and later studied engineering. After reading Darwin, he left his Catholic faith.
In 1911 he moved to Australia, becoming assistant curator at the Tasmanian Museum and later a fellow in economic biology at the University of Queensland. His collections and types are held by the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery and the Australian Museum, with other holdings at CSIRO and the University of Queensland.
Hardy published notes on Diptera and described new species in several scientific journals. In 1923 he founded the Entomological Society of Queensland and helped start the Australian Entomological Society. He married Martha Elizabeth Olive Harris, a Tasmanian teacher who helped with his work, and they had one daughter, Margaret Hurlstone Hardy Fallding. He named the Tasmanian fly Pelecorhynchus olivei in her honor.
He lived in Brisbane suburbs (Toowong, Sunnybank and Annerley) in a home called Waldheim, before retiring in Katoomba, New South Wales.
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