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Authorised form of namePengelly; William (1812 - 1894); geologist
Dates1812 - 1894
NationalityBritish
Place of birthEast Looe, Cornwall, England
Date of birth12 January 1812
Place of deathHis residence, Lamorna, Torquay, Devon
Date of death16 March 1894
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Torquay cemetery, Devon
ActivityCareer:
Served at sea; became a teacher in Torquay; collected Devon fossils; explored Kent's Hole
Memberships:
FGS
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election04/06/1863
RelationshipsQuaker family
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1895-1896 vol 59 pp xxxix-xli signed by W B D
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/32780375
CodeNA2162
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
MS/222/1Letter from William Pengelly, London, to [Arthur] Evans29 June 1887
EC/1863/11Pengelly, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/003492Pengelly, Williamnd
MM/17/78Letter from Hester Pengelly to Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society30 December 1897
MS/710/81Letter from William Pengelly, Lamorna, Torquay, to Robert Were Fox19 September 1856
MS/222/16Fifty-ninth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee9 November 1870
MS/222/33Twenty-eighth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee1 November 1867
MS/222/5Second report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee1 June 1865
MS/222/3Letter from William Pengelly, Lamorna, Torquay, to Sir Charles Lyell1 May 1865
MS/222/7Fourth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee1 August 1865
MS/222/6Third report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee1 July 1865
MS/222/2Letter from William Pengelly, Lamorna, Torquay, to [Arthur] Evans11 July 1887
MS/222/15Twelfth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee1 May 1866
MS/222/19Fifteenth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee1 August 1866
MS/222/14Eleventh report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee2 April 1866
MS/222/8Fifth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Lamorna, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee2 October 1865
MS/222/9Sixth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee1 November 1865
MS/222/23Eighteenth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee3 December 1866
MS/222/40Thirty-fifth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee5 June 1868
MS/222/11Eighth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee1 January 1866
MS/222/18Fourteenth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee2 July 1866
MS/222/21Letter from William Pengelly, Lamorna, Torquay, to Charles [Lyell]1 October 1866
MS/222/10Seventh report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee1 December 1865
MS/222/26Twenty-first report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee6 March 1867
MS/222/17Thirteenth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee1 June 1866
MS/222/24Nineteenth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee3 January 1867
MS/222/36Thirty-first report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee3 February 1868
MS/222/12Ninth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee1 February 1866
MS/222/25Twentieth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee4 February 1867
MS/222/20Sixteenth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee1 October 1866
MS/222/22Seventeenth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee5 November 1866
MS/222/28Twenty-third report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee7 May 1867
MS/222/30Twenty-fifth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee8 July 1867
MS/222/27Twenty-second report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee8 April 1867
MS/222/29Twenty-fourth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee3 June 1867
MS/222/31Twenty-sixth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee6 August 1867
MS/222/34Twenty-ninth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee2 December 1867
MS/222/37Thirty-second report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee2 March 1868
MS/222/39Thirty-fourth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee5 May 1868
MS/222/4First report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee1 May 1865
MS/222/81Seventy-seventh report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee11 July 1872
NLB/9/71Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons22 March 1894
NLB/9/468Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons24 May 1894
NLB/11/684Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Thomas George Bonney, Fellow of the Royal Society16 September 1895
NLB/12/502Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Joseph Lister, President of the Royal Society2 March 1896
NLB/12/501Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Boyd Dawkins, Fellow of the Royal Society2 March 1896
NLB/15/862Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Miss Pengelly, Lamorna, Torquay4 January 1898
NLB/15/850Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Miss Pengelly23 December 1897
NLB/19/172Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Miss Hester Pengelly7 July 1899
MS/710/82Letter from William Pengelly, Lamorna, Torquay, to [Charles Fox?]14 May 1860
MS/222Reports on excavations at Kent's Cavern by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian1865-1880
MS/222/13Tenth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee6 March 1866
MS/222/32Twenty-seventh report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee2 October 1867
MS/222/38Thirty-third report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee6 April 1868
MS/222/35Thirtieth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee1 January 1868
MS/222/41Thirty-sixth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee1 July 1868
MS/222/42Thirty-seventh report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee3 August 1868
PT/67/7Paper, 'The lignites and clays of Bovey Tracey Devonshire' by William Pengelly[1861]
PT/67/7/2Plate, portion of tunnel in pit near fault by unknown artist[1861]
PT/67/7/1Manuscript, 'The lignites and clays of Bovey Tracey Devonshire' by William Pengelly[1861]
PT/67/7/4Plate, sections of the Bovey formation in plane of strike of the beds by unknown artist[1861]
PT/67/7/3Plate, section of the Bovey formation in plane of dip of the beds by unknown artist[1861]
MC/11/447Letter from Wm [William] Pengelly, Lamorna, Torquay, to [Thomas Henry Huxley and George Gabriel Stokes], Secretaries of the Royal Society, London28 November 1879
MC/11Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1877-1879
AP/44/10/2Unpublished figure, 'Showing the uncomformability of the "head" at the western end of the "coal pit"' by William Pengelly1861
AP/44/10/3Unpublished figure, strata by William Pengelly1861
RR/5/177Referee's report by Joseph Prestwich, on a paper 'The lignites and clays of Bovey Tracey, Devonshire' by William PengellyMarch 1862
AP/44/10/1Manuscript, 'The lignites and clays of Bovey Tracey, Devonshire [England]' by William Pengelly1861
AP/44/10Paper, 'The lignites and clays of Bovey Tracey, Devonshire [England]' by William Pengelly1861
MC/11/444Letter from Wm [William] Pengelly, Lamorna, Torquay, to [Thomas Henry Huxley and George Gabriel Stokes], Secretaries of the Royal Society, London25 November 1879
RR/5/176Referee's report by Joseph Dalton Hooker, on a paper 'The lignites and clays of Bovey Tracey, Devonshire' by William Pengelly4 February 1862
MS/222/43Thirty-eighth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee5 October 1868
MS/222/44Thirty-ninth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee3 November 1868
MS/222/45Fortieth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee3 December 1868
MS/222/46Forty-first report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee7 January 1869
MS/222/47Forty-second report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee4 February 1869
MS/222/48Forty-third report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee8 March 1869
MS/222/49Forty-fourth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee8 April 1869
MS/222/50Forty-fifth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee8 May 1869
MS/222/51Forty-sixth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee8 June 1869
MS/222/52Forty-seventh report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee10 July 1869
MS/222/53Forty-eighth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee9 October 1869
MS/222/54Forty-ninth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee6 November 1869
MS/222/55Fiftieth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee7 December 1869
MS/222/56Fifty-first report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee11 January 1870
MS/222/57Fifty-second report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee8 February 1870
MS/222/58Fifty-third report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee9 March 1870
MS/222/59Fifty-fourth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee12 April 1870
MS/222/60Fifty-fifth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee10 May 1870
MS/222/61Fifty-sixth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee7 June 1870
MS/222/62Fifty-seventh report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee6 July 1870
MS/222/63Fifty-eighth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee10 August 1870
MS/222/64Sixtieth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee9 December 1870
MS/222/65Sixty-first report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee11 January 1871
MS/222/66Sixty-second report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee2 February 1871
MS/222/67Sixty-third report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee2 March 1871
MS/222/68Sixty-fourth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee10 April 1871
MS/222/69Sixty-fifth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee8 May 1871
MS/222/70Sixty-sixth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee6 June 1871
MS/222/71Sixty-seventh report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee6 July 1871
MS/222/72Sixty-eighth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee12 September 1871
MS/222/73Sixty-ninth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee10 October 1871
MS/222/74Seventieth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee7 November 1871
MS/222/75Seventy-first report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee9 December 1871
MS/222/76Seventy-second report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee9 January 1872
MS/222/77Seventy-third report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee12 February 1872
MS/222/78Seventy-fourth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee12 March 1872
MS/222/79Seventy-fifth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee9 April 1872
MS/222/80Seventy-sixth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee12 June 1872
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