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Authorised form of nameWoodward; Horace Bolingbroke (1848 - 1914); geologist
Dates1848 - 1914
NationalityBritish
Place of birthLondon, England
Date of birth20 August 1848
Place of death85 Coombe Road, Croydon, London, England
Date of death06/02/1914
Occupationgeologist
Research fieldGeology
ActivityEducation: 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 categoryFellow
Date of election04/06/1896
Age at election48
ProposerJoseph 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
RelationshipsParents: 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
PublishedWorksRCN 16352
RCN R68169
RCN R68170
RCN 51000
RCN 42386
RCN R68171
RCN R68172
RCN 24408
RCN R68164
RCN R68165
RCN R68166
RCN R68167
RCN 50999
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SourceSources:
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
CodeNA2164
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1896/21Woodward, Horace Bolingbroke: certificate of election to the Royal Society
EC/1896/22Woodward, Horace Bolingbroke: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/10/556Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to F W Rudler, Geological Museum, Jermyn Street18 December 1894
NLB/13/830Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Horace Bolingbroke Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society, West Hampstead6 December 1896
NLB/14/113Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons7 January 1897
NLB/30/98Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Horace Bolingbroke Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society27 January 1905
NLB/36/618Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Samuel Hawksley Burbury, Fellow of the Royal Society20 November 1907
NLB/39/486Copy letter from The Robert William Frederick Harrison to A [Aubrey] Stranhan, Fellow of the Royal Society26 January 1909
RR/18/69Referee's report by Horace Bolingbroke Woodward, on a paper 'The lignite of bovey tracey' by Clement Reid and Eleanor Reid3 June 1910
IM/Maull/004994Woodward, Horace Bolingbrokend
MC/19Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1904
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