| Authorised form of name | Oldham; Thomas (1816 - 1878) |
| Dates | 1816 - 1878 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Dublin, Ireland |
| Date of birth | 04 May 1816 |
| Place of death | Rugby, Warwickshire |
| Date of death | 17 July 1878 |
| Research field | Geology |
| Activity | Education:
Trinity College, Dublin BA (1830-1836), MA (1846); Edinburgh University (geology and engineering).MA
Career:
Appointed to the Geological Survey of Ireland (1838); Curator to the Geological Society of Dublin (1843-1845) and Assistant to Professor Sir John Benjamin MacNeill (179301880), the first Professor of Civil Engineering in Trinity College, Dublin; Professor of Geology, Trinity College, Dublin (1845); Local Director of the Geological Survey of Ireland (1846-1850); Superintendent, Geological Survey of India (1851 - 1876); awarded Gold Medal by the Emperor of Austria (1873); retired and lived in Rugby (1877)
Memberships:
Geological Society of Ireland (President 1848-1950); MRIA(1844); FGS (1843); Member of Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal (1857)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 09/06/1848 |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1875 |
| Relationships | Eldest son of Thomas Oldham and his wife Margaret Bagot? or Boyd; married (1850) Miss L M Dixon of Liverpool |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB; Irish Innovators
References:
R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 2. After 1847' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 47-84 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/13723914 |
| Code | NA5605 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1848/12 | Oldham, Thomas: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/Maull/003371 | Oldham, Thomas | nd |
| MC/5/272 | Letter from Thomas Oldham, Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India and of the Geological Museum Calcutta, 1 Hastings Street, Calcutta, to the Secretary of the Royal Society | January 1857 |
| MC/11/364 | Draft letter from Robt [Robert] Mallet, Enmore, The Grove, Clapham Road, to W [William] Spottiswoode, President of the Royal Society, Burlington House | 21 May 1879 |
| MC/11 | Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1877-1879 |
| MC/5 | Volume 5 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1851-1858 |