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Authorised form of nameHudleston; Wilfred Hudleston (1828 - 1909)
Other forms of surnameSimpson
Dates1828 - 1909
NationalityBritish
Place of birthYork, Yorkshire, England
Date of birth02 June 1828
Place of deathWest Holme, Dorset
Date of death29/01/1909
ActivityEducation:
St John's College, Cambridge. BA (1850), MA
Career:
Made an orthnithological expedition to Algeria with Henry Tristram (FRS 1868) and Osbert Salvin (FRS 1873); also visited Greece and Turkey; held a commission in the Kent Artillery (militia) (1862-1867); took up geology; President, Geologists' Association; visited India (1895); purchased the estate of East Stoke (1897)
Memberships:
FGS (1867, President 1892-1894); FCS; Mineralogical Society (President)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election12/06/1884
RelationshipsSon of Dr John Simpson of Knaresborough and his wife Elizabeth, heiress of the Hudlestones of Cumberland; assumed the surname of Hudleston by royal licence on succeeding to those estates (1867)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1909 vol 81 pp vi-x, plate, signed by H W
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/35921474
CodeNA6674
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1884/13Hudleston, Wilfred Hudleston: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/3/708Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons24 September 1889
NLB/6/118Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston, Fellow of the Royal Society7 March 1892
NLB/6/665Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston, President of the Geological Survey, Fellow of the Royal Society23 June 1892
NLB/10/312Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society; Michael Foster; [Andrew Ainslie] Common; [Philip Lutley] Sclater; [Percy Alexander] MacMahon; and [Wilfred Hudleston] Hudleston7 November 1894
NLB/14/418Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston, 8 Stanhope Gardens, Queen's Gate, S.W.8 March 1897
NLB/22/189Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Wilfred Hudleston] Hudleston, Fellow of the Royal Society20 March 1901
NLB/25/53Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Wilfred Hudlestone Hudlestone, Fellow of the Royal Society30 July 1902
NLB/24/675Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Hugo Muller, Fellow of the Royal Society16 June 1902
NLB/27/552Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Wilfred Hudleston, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of Government Grant Board D20 October 1903
MC/24/220Letter from Henry Woodward, 13 Arundel Gardens, Notting Hill, London, W, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]18 September 1909
NLB/39/544Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Harrison & Sons4 February 1909
NLB/39/647Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society19 February 1909
MC/24/221Letter from Henry Woodward, 13 Arundel Gardens, Notting Hill, London, W, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]17 November 1909
NLB/10/629Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Wilfred Hudleston Hudlestone, Fellow of the Royal Society8 January 1895
MC/13/41Letter from T G [Thomas George] Bonney, 23 Denning Road, Hampstead, to [Michael] Foster, [Secretary of the Royal Society]9 April 1884
MC/13/63Letter from W H [Wilfred Hudleston] Hudleston, Oatlands Park, Weybridge, to [Michael Foster and George Gabriel Stokes], Secretaries of the Royal Society14 June 1884
MC/13Volume 13 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1884
MC/18/98Letter from [Wilfred Hudleston] Hudleston, 8 Stanhope Gardens, Queens Gate, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison8 March 1903
MC/18/145Letter from [Joseph] Larmor, Secetary of the Royal Society, to Mr [Wilfred Hudelston] Hudleston7 March 1903
MC/24/219Letter from Henry Woodward, 13 Arundel Gardens, Notting Hill, London, W, to Robert Harrison, The Royal Society, Burlington House20 February 1909
MC/25/21Letter from [Francis Arthur] Bather, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, S.W, to Robert Harrison, Librarian, Royal Society1 March 1910
MC/25/20Letter from [Francis Arthur] Bather, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, S. W, to the Editor, Proceedings of the Royal Society, [Royal Society]17 February 1910
MC/18Volume 18 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1903
MC/24/222Letter from Henry Woodward, 13 Arundel Gardens, Notting Hill, London, W, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]26 December 1909
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