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Authorised form of nameWoodward; Henry (1832 - 1921); geologist
Dates1832 - 1921
NationalityBritish
Place of birthNorwich, Norfolk, England
Date of birth24 November 1832
Date of death06/09/1921
Occupationgeologist
Research fieldGeology
ActivityEducation:
Norwich School
Career:
Worked in a bank in Norwich (1850-1857); Senior Assistant, Department of Geology, British Museum (by 1871); Keeper of Department of Geology (1880-1901).
Memberships:
FGS; FZS
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election12/06/1873
Age at election41
ProposerThomas Davidson; William Benjamin Carpenter; Edward Joseph Lowe; Henry William Bristow; Robert Etheridge; Henry James; Henry Holland; William Henry Flower; Nevil Story Maskelyne; John Jeremiah Bigsby; Edward William Cooke; Thomas Sopwith
Richard Owen; Charles Lyell; Douglas Galton; [William Willoughby Cole] Enniskillen; Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton; Josh Prestwich; Andrew Crombie Ramsay; George Julius Poulett Scrope; John Phillips
RelationshipsParents: Samuel Woodward of Norwich
Spouse: Ellen Sophia, daughter of Fountain Page of Norwich
Published worksRCN 50544
RCN 50545
RCN 50546
RCN 50547
RCN 24408
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SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1925 vol 98 pp xxiii-xxv, plate, signed by A S W
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/20043585
Royal Society codeNA5964
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1873/16Woodward, Henry: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MC/24/221Letter from Henry Woodward, 13 Arundel Gardens, Notting Hill, London, W, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]17 November 1909
NLB/40/772Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr Henry Woodward FRS 11 August 1909
NLB/3/299Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society2 May 1889
NLB/3/757Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society1 October 1889
NLB/6/979Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society28 September 1892
NLB/5/308Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr [Henry] Woodward, [Fellow of the Royal Society]11 May 1891
NLB/8/327Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society2 October 1893
NLB/8/171Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society24 July 1893
NLB/8/527Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society10 November 1893
NLB/8/806Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society1 January 1894
NLB/8/855Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society10 January 1894
NLB/10/903Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society28 February 1895
NLB/9/571Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society7 June 1894
NLB/10/891Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society26 February 1895
NLB/14/232Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society27 January 1897
NLB/12/344Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society3 February 1896
NLB/8New Letter Book volume 8, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration28 June 1893-8 March 1894
NLB/14/600Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society6 April 1897
NLB/14/653Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society14 April 1897
NLB/14/642Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society13 April 1897
NLB/15/304Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society31 July 1897
NLB/15/2Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society4 June 1897
NLB/19/599Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society7 November 1899
NLB/19/613Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society9 November 1899
NLB/19/866Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society10 January 1900
NLB/20/44Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Henry Woodward, [Fellow of the Royal Society]22 January 1900
NLB/21/121Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society1 August 1900
NLB/22/490Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society23 May 1901
NLB/22/477Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society, British Museum (Natural History)21 May 1901
NLB/23/2/528Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Miss Dorothea Minola Alice Bate, c/o Dr H Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society15 July 1904
NLB/30/744Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society16 May 1905
NLB/27/189Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society16 July 1903
NLB/27/542Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society19 October 1903
NLB/30/308Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society, 129 Beaufort Street, Chelsea, S.W.2 March 1905
NLB/37/812Copy letter from Archibald Geikie to Dr Henry Woodward19 May 1908
NLB/30/606Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Henry Wooward, Fellow of the Royal Society17 April 1905
NLB/28/823Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society1 June 1904
MC/21/668Letter from Henry Woodward, British Association for the Advancement of Science, Reception Room, Echibition Buildings, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison2 August 1906
NLB/34/372Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Dr [Henry] Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society9 January 1907
MC/22/524Letter from Henry Woodward, 13 Arundel Gardens, Notting Hill, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison2 December 1907
NLB/39/69Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society20 November 1908
NLB/39/647Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society19 February 1909
NLB/40/316Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to J Gray, 3 Hanover Square, W24 May 1909
NLB/41/280Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr [Henry] Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society12 November 1909
MC/19/859Letter from Henry Woodward, 129 Beaufort Street, Chelsea, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison29 June 1904
NLB/43/299Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr [Henry] Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society9 December 1910
NLB/46/108Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society11 June 1912
MC/10/332Letter from Henry Woodward, Fairlawn, Cobham, Surrey, to Dr [Joseph Dalton] Hooker, [President of the Royal Society]20 January 1876
NLB/50/237Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr [Henry] Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society28 May 1914
NLB/50/77Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr [Henry] Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society28 May 1914
NLB/51/130Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Dr H Woodward FRS16 December 1914
NLB/54/874Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Henry Woodward, FRS26 October 1917
NLB/55/2Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Henry Woodward, FRS05 November 1917
NLB/55/40Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Henry] Woodward, FRS15 November 1917
RR/10/223Referee's report by Henry Woodward, on a paper 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil reptilia.—VI. On the anomodont reptilia and their allies' by Harry Govier Seeley21 July 1888
RR/11/91Referee's report by Henry Woodward, on a paper 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil reptilia.–VII. Further observations on pareiasaurus' by Harry Govier Seeley2 July 1891
NLB/61/748Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Arthur] Smith Woodward, FRS21 October 1921
NLB/67/426Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Woodward, FRS18 December 1924
NLB/68/403Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Arthur] Smith Woodward, FRS9 July 1925
NLB/68/604Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, FRS19 September 1925
NLB/38/664Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society20 October 1908
NLB/8/418Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society23 October 1893
NLB/10/606Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society2 January 1895
NLB/20/263Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, S.W.8 March 1900
RR/12/237Referee's report by Henry Woodward, on a paper 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil reptilia.—Part IX., section 5. On the skeleton new Cynodontia from the Karroo rocks' by Harry Govier Seeley21 April 1894
NLB/8/408Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society20 October 1893
NLB/8/1028Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society12 February 1894
CD/102/7Letter from Henry Woodward, 13 Arundel Gardens, Notting Hill, London, to Robert Harrison24 February 1914
MC/24/220Letter from Henry Woodward, 13 Arundel Gardens, Notting Hill, London, W, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]18 September 1909
MDA/C/12/1/11Letter from Henry Woodward, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society27 February 1895
NLB/41/360Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr [Henry] Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society27 November 1909
MC/24/219Letter from Henry Woodward, 13 Arundel Gardens, Notting Hill, London, W, to Robert Harrison, The Royal Society, Burlington House20 February 1909
MC/10Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal SocietyJuly 1873-1876
CD/102/6Letter from Henry Woodward, 13 Arundel Gardens, Notting Hill, London, to Sir John Rose Bradford22 January 1914
AP/69/6Unpublished paper, 'The Har Dalam [Għar Dalam] cavern, Malta and its fossiliferous contents' by John H Cooke and Arthur Smith Woodward1893
AP/69/6/1Unpublished manuscript, 'The Har Dalam [Għar Dalam] cavern, Malta and its fossiliferous contents' by John H Cooke and Arthur Smith Woodward1893
RR/13/117Referee's report by Henry Woodward, on a paper 'Researches on the structure, organisation, and classification of the fossil reptilia. Part X. On the complete skeleton of an anomodont reptile (Aristodesmus Rütimeyeri, Wiedersheim), from the bunter sandstone of reihen, near basel, giving new evidence of the relation of the anomodontia to the monotremata' by Harry Govier Seeley1 January 1896
RR/12/239Referee's report by Henry Woodward, on two papers 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil reptilia.—Part IX., section 4. On the Gomphodontia' and 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil reptilia.—Part IX., section 6. Associated remains of two small skeletons from Klipfontein, Fraserburg' by Harry Govier Seeley3 August 1894
RR/9/279Letter from Henry Woodward, on a paper 'On beds of sponge-remains in the lower and upper greensand of the South of England' by George Jennings Hinde to the Secretary of the Royal Society28 April 1885
RR/12/35Referee's report by Henry Woodward, on a paper 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil ilia.-VIII. Further evidences of the skeleton in Deuterosaurus and Rhopalodon, from the Permian rocks of Russia' by Harry Govier Seeley26 July 1893
PP/22/19Paper, 'Report on animal remains from the Har Dalam [Għar Dalam] Cavern, Malta. The organic remains' by John H Cooke and Arthur Smith Woodward1893
RR/12/235Referee's report by Henry Woodward, on three papers 'Researches on the structure, organisation and classification of the fossil reptilia.—Part IX., Section 1. On the Therosuchia', 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil reptilia.—Part IX., Section 2. The reputed mammals from the Karroo formation of Cape Colony' and 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil reptilia. -Part IX., Section 3. On Diademodon' by Harry Govier Seeley21 February 1894
MC/15/304Letter from Henry Woodward, Keeper of the Geological Department, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, to the Secretary of the Royal Society27 September 1892
MC/15/187Letter from Henry Woodward, The Royal Society, Burlington House, London, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society27 May 1891
MC/15/172Letter from Henry Woodward, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London, to the Secretary of the Royal Society27 April 1891
MC/16/7Letter from Henry Woodward, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary of the Royal Society2 February 1893
MC/16Volume 16 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1893-1896
MC/24/222Letter from Henry Woodward, 13 Arundel Gardens, Notting Hill, London, W, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]26 December 1909
MC/19/861Letter from Henry Woodward, 129 Beaufort Street, Chelsea, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison26 November 1904
MC/19/860Letter from Henry Woodward, 129 Beaufort Street, Chelsea, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison12 October 1904
MC/19/862Letter from Henry Woodward, 129 Beaufort Street, Chelsea, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison18 December 1904
MC/27/364Letter from Henry Woodward, 13 Arundel Gardens, Notting Hill, W, to Sir Archibald Geikie, President of the Royal Society7 June 1912
MC/19Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1904
MC/31/231Letter from Henry Woodward, Notting Hill, London, W, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]28 March 1916
NLB/33/327Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society3 August 1906
MC/32/275Letter from Henry Woodward, 13 Arundel Gardens, Notting Hill, W., to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]31 October 1917
MC/32/276Letter from Henry Woodward, 13 Arundel Gardens, Notting Hill, W., to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]13 November 1917
MC/22Volume 22 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1907
MC/22/523Letter from Henry Woodward, 129 Beaufort Street, Chelsea, to Sir Archibald [Geikie]31 January 1907
NLB/36/706Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society4 December 1907
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