| Authorised form of name | Fermor; Sir; Lewis Leigh (1880 - 1954) |
| Dates | 1880 - 1954 |
| Date of birth | 18 September 1880 |
| Date of death | 24/05/1954 |
| Activity | Education:
DSc (Lond)
Career:
Director, Geological Survey of India; ex-President of the Mining and Geological Institute of India
Honours:
OBE 1919; Kt 1935
Memberships:
FGS; MInstMM; Fellow of Asiatic Society of Bengal
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 03/05/1934 |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1956 vol 2 pp 101-113, plate, by H Crookshank and J B Auden
References:
R Singh and F Riess, 'The nobel laureate Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman FRS and his contacts with the British Scientific community in a social and political context' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 47-64 |
| Code | NA1769 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1934/03 | Fermor, Sir Lewis Leigh: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/GA/WS/605 | Fermor, Sir Lewis Leigh | 1946 |