| Authorised form of name | Godwin-Austen; Robert Alfred Cloyne (1808 - 1884) |
| Other forms of name | Robert Alfred Cloyne Godwin- |
| Other forms of surname | Austen |
| Dates | 1808 - 1884 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Shalford House, Guildford, Surrey, England |
| Date of birth | 19 March 1808 |
| Place of death | Shalford House, Guildford, Surrey |
| Date of death | 25 November 1884 |
| Research field | Geology |
| Activity | Education:
Oriel College, Oxford. BA (1830)
Career:
Fellow, Oriel College Oxford; knew Charles Lyell (FRS 1826), Leonard Horner (FRS 1813) and Sir Roderick Murchison (FRS 1826), and began to study geology; studied fossiliferous Devonian limestones
Memberships:
FGS
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 07/06/1849 |
| Relationships | Son of Sir Henry Edmund Austen and his wife Anne Amelia, daughter of Robert Spearman Bate of the HEIC; married (1833) Maria Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sir Henry Thomas Godwin; took the name Godwin on the death of his father-in-law; father of Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen (FRS 1880) |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1884-1885 vol 38 pp ix-xiii signed by J W J
Notes:
DSB gives birth date as 17 Mar. Edward Forbes has signed election certificate twice |
| Royal Society code | NA5587 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1849/03 | Godwin-Austen, Robert Alfred Cloyne: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/000165 | Godwin Austen, Robert Alfred Cloyne | c 1862 |
| NLB/56/173 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Major [Henry Haversham] Godwin-Austen, FRS | 6 December 1918 |
| NLB/56/767 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Major [Robert Alfred Cloyne] Godwin-Austen, FRS | 20 May 1919 |
| NLB/65/743 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Major [Robert Alfred Cloyne] Godwin-Austen; Smithbrook Manor, Cranleigh, Surrey | 14 December 1923 |
| IM/Maull/000164 | Godwin Austen, Robert Alfred Cloyne | nd |
| RR/7/337 | Referee's report by Robert Alfred Cloyne Godwin Austen, on a paper 'On the comparative value of certain geological ages (or groups of formations) considered as items of geological time' by Andrew Crombie Ramsay | 1874 |
| RR/7/106 | Referee's report by Robert Alfred Cloyne Godwin-Austen, on a paper 'On the extension of the coal-fields beneath the newer formations of England; and the succession of physical changes whereby the coal-measures have been reduced to their present dimensions' by Edward Hull | 27 February 1871 |
| MC/34/86 | Letter from [Henry Haversham] Godwin-Austen, Nore, Godalming, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society] | 18 November 1919 |