# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harold-maxwell-lefroy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:51:07.070Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/harold-maxwell-lefroy"
name: "Harold Maxwell-Lefroy"
slug: "harold-maxwell-lefroy"
description: "Harold Maxwell-Lefroy was an English entomologist. He served as a professor of entomology at Imperial College London before moving to India where he took over the position of entomologist to the government of India from Lionel de Niceville. He was later made the first Imperial Entomologist to India. He worked in India for eight years, established entomological research at the Imperial Agricultural Research Institute in Pusa and left India after two of his children died from insect-borne diseases. He worked on applied entomology and initiated experiments on the use of chemicals to control insects. A formula he developed was utilized to save Westminster Hall from destruction by wood-boring beetles, while others were used to control lice in the trenches during the First World War. The success of his chemicals led to increased demand and the founding of Rentokil, a company for insecticide production. He was killed in an accident while experimenting with fumigants to control insects."
tagline: "British entomologist (1877–1925)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/HMaxwell_Lefroy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1877-01-20"
deathDate: "1925-10-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.22
  momentum:             15.14010378057821
  historical:           3.080634666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  38
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Maxwell-Lefroy"
    title: "Harold Maxwell-Lefroy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Maxwell-Lefroy"
    title: "Harold Maxwell-Lefroy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%93%88%E7%BD%97%E5%BE%B7%C2%B7%E9%BA%A6%E5%85%8B%E6%96%AF%E9%9F%A6-%E5%8B%92%E5%BC%97%E7%BD%97%E4%BC%8A"
    title: "哈罗德·麦克斯韦-勒弗罗伊"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5661696"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump