| Authorised form of name | Woodward; Horace Bolingbroke (1848 - 1914); geologist |
| Dates | 1848 - 1914 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | London, England |
| Date of birth | 20 August 1848 |
| Place of death | 85 Coombe Road, Croydon, London, England |
| Date of death | 06/02/1914 |
| Occupation | geologist |
| Research field | Geology |
| Activity | Education: Private school
Career: Appointed assistant to the Secretary, Mr. H. M. Jenkins, Geological Society (1863); Appointed Assistant Geologist on Geological Survey under Sir Roderick Murchison (1867-1908); worked under Bristow in Somerset and other districts; Took part in first drift survey of London area; transferred to Somerset Coalfield, worked in Devon, Somerset and Dorset; transferred to Norfolk and Norwich (1867); promoted to Geologist (1875); Murchison Fund (1885); took charge of Jermyn Street Office under Archibald Geikie (FRS 1865) on the death of Topley (1894); appointed District Surveyor (1896); Acting Director for England and Wales (1899); Assistant to Director (1901); retired (1908).
Memberships:
FGS (1868) (VP 1904-6)
Honorary Member of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society
Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club
Essex Field Club
Geologists' Association (President 1893-4)
Awards/Medals:
Murchison Medal 1897
Wollaston Medal 1909 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 04/06/1896 |
| Age at election | 48 |
| Proposer | Joseph Prestwich; William Whitaker; Wilfred Hudelston Hudleston; Thomas McKenny Hughes; John Wesley Judd; Thomas Rupert Jones; Alexander Henry Green; William Topley; Jethro Justinian Harris Teall |
| Archibald Geikie; Henry Woodward; Lazarus Fletcher; William Carruthers; Edward Hull; St George Jackson Mivart; R Etheridge; T G Bonney; H Hicks; R Meldola; St George Mivart; H H Godwin-Austen; H G Seeley; E Hull; H H Godwin-Austen; H G Seeley; E Hull |
| Relationships | Parents: Samuel Pickworth Woodward, geologist, of the Department of Geology in the British Museum (1848-65), second son of Samuel Woodward, geologist and antiquary.
Spouse: Miss Alice Jennings at Dorking (d.1902), 5 June 1873.
Children: Mrs. Sydney Barnwell |
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| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; BGS Earthwise, Horace Bolingbroke Woodward F.R.S., F.G.S.[URL:https://earthwise.bgs.ac.uk/index.php/Horace_Bolingbroke_Woodward_F.R.S.,_F.G.S.; last accessed 14/03/2024); Obituary - Horace Bolingbroke Woodward, Proceedings of the Geologists Association. v. 26 p.142-144. 1915 [URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/7D650033C7A05BFDC490B903B0171EE8/S0016756800138282a.pdf/div-class-title-horace-bolingbroke-woodward-f-r-s-f-g-s-div.pdf; last accessed: 14/03/2024]
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1919-1920 vol 91 pp xxxi-xxxii signed by W W |
| Code | NA2164 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1896/21 | Woodward, Horace Bolingbroke: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| EC/1896/22 | Woodward, Horace Bolingbroke: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/10/556 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to F W Rudler, Geological Museum, Jermyn Street | 18 December 1894 |
| NLB/13/830 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Horace Bolingbroke Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society, West Hampstead | 6 December 1896 |
| NLB/14/113 | Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 7 January 1897 |
| NLB/30/98 | Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Horace Bolingbroke Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society | 27 January 1905 |
| NLB/39/486 | Copy letter from The Robert William Frederick Harrison to A [Aubrey] Stranhan, Fellow of the Royal Society | 26 January 1909 |
| RR/18/69 | Referee's report by Horace Bolingbroke Woodward, on a paper 'The lignite of bovey tracey' by Clement Reid and Eleanor Reid | 3 June 1910 |
| IM/Maull/004994 | Woodward, Horace Bolingbroke | nd |
| MC/26/283 | Letter from Horace [Bolingbroke] Woodward, 85 Coombe Road, Croydon, to Mr [Robert Harrison], [Royal Society] | 3 December 1911 |
| MC/19 | Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1904 |
| NLB/36/618 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Samuel Hawksley Burbury, Fellow of the Royal Society | 20 November 1907 |