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G. V. (George Vernon) Hudson
1867–1946
A London-born naturalist who made New Zealand’s insect life vivid for general readers, he is also remembered for first proposing the modern idea of daylight saving time. By day he worked as a postal clerk; in his own hours he built a lasting reputation as an entomologist and observer of the natural world.
2 Audiobooks
An elementary manual of New Zealand entomology : being an introduction to the study of our native insects
by G. V. (George Vernon) Hudson
New Zealand Moths and Butterflies (Macro-Lepidoptera)
by G. V. (George Vernon) Hudson
About the author
Born in London on 20 April 1867, George Vernon Hudson moved to New Zealand as a teenager and spent much of his working life in the Post Office. Alongside that day job, he pursued insects, astronomy, and field observation with remarkable energy, becoming one of New Zealand’s best-known amateur scientists.
Hudson wrote a series of popular and scholarly books on New Zealand insects that helped bring local entomology to a wide audience. Reliable biographical sources also credit him with proposing the modern form of daylight saving time, an idea linked to his wish for more usable evening daylight for study and collecting.
He died on 5 April 1946. Today he is remembered both for his scientific writing and for the curiosity and persistence that let him turn a personal passion into work that lasted well beyond his lifetime.