Gerald Augustus Harold Bedford

Gerald Augustus Harold Bedford ( – ) 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 . 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 "Aponomma exornatum" collected in Onderstepoort. In 1920, he was promoted "Research Officer" in Onderstepoort. He died in 1938 at the age of 46.
Authored Taxa.
Between 1912 and 1938, Bedford discovered and described the following species of tick in South Africa :