| Authorised form of name | Fitton; William Henry (1780 - 1861); geologist |
| Dates | 1780 - 1861 |
| Place of birth | Dublin, Ireland |
| Date of birth | January 1780 |
| Place of death | London |
| Date of death | 13 May 1861 |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Research field | Geology |
| Activity | Education:
Trinity College, Dublin. AB (1799), MD (1810, Edinburgh), LCP (1811), MD (1815, Dublin)
Career:
Settled in medical practice, Northampton; assisted Rev Walter Stephens (?1772-1808) with his pioneering geological explorations south of Dublin and edited his findings for posthumous publication as 'Notes on the Mineralogy of Part of the Vicinity of Dublin (1812) and wrote a similarly entitled paper (1811); married a woman of means and gave up medicine for geology; developed the descending strata from chalk to oolite; as President of the Geological Society he initiated the annual Presidential Address and inaugurated the publication of the Society's Proceedings; awarded Wollaston Medal (1852)
Memberships:
FCP (1816); FGS 1816 (President 1827-1829)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 09/11/1815 |
| Relationships | Son of Nicholas Fitton; married (1820) Miss James |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB; Irish Innovators
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1862-1863 vol 12 pp iv-vi |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/47517277 |
| Royal Society code | NA3138 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1815/08 | Fitton, William Henry: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MS/709/20 | Letter from William Henry Fitton, 53 Upper Harley Street, to James [De Carle] Sowerby, 2 Mead Place, Lambeth | 6 July 1827 |
| MS/709/21 | Letter from William Henry Fitton, Highwood Hill, to [James De Carle] Sowerby, 5 Camden Terrace West, Camden Town | 20 May 1835 |
| DM/1/20 | Letter from WH Fitton, Brasted, Somerset, to P M Roget | 10 March 1831 |
| MC/1/266 | Letter from [William] Henry Fitton, 53 Upper Harley Street, to Dr. [Peter Mark] Roget, Secretary of the Royal Society | 22 December 1830 |
| RR/1/162 | Referee's report by William Henry Fitton, on a paper 'Memoir on a portion of the lower jaw of the iguanodon, and on the remains of the hylaeosaurus and other saurians, discovered in the strata of Tilgate Forest, in Sussex' by Gideon Algernon Mantell | 10 May 1841 |
| IM/Maull/001423 | Fitton, William Henry | 06 June 1860 |
| RR/1/157 | Referee's report by William Henry Fitton, on a paper 'Geological remarks on Kerguelen's Land' by R McCormick | 16 June 1841 |
| MC/1 | Volume 1 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1800-1831 |