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Authorised form of nameHughes; Thomas McKenny (1832 - 1917)
Dates1832 - 1917
NationalityBritish
Place of birthAberystwyth, Cardiganshire, Wales
Date of birth17 December 1832
Place of deathCambridge
Date of death09/06/1917
Research fieldGeology
ActivityEducation:
Trinity College, Cambridge. BA (1857), MA (1867)
Career:
Secretary to the British Consul, Rome (1860); resigned (1861); joined the Geological Survey (to 1873); Woodwardian Professor of Geology, Cambridge
Memberships:
FGS; FSA
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election06/06/1889
RelationshipsSon of Joshua Hughes, Bishop of St Asaph; married a daughter of Rev G F Weston, honorary canon of Carlisle
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB (MP)
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/147355291
CodeNA6575
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
NLB/54/531Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Messrs Harrison & Sons]11 June 1917
IM/Maull/002296Hughes, Thomas McKennynd
NLB/7/411Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Thomas McKenny Hughes, Fellow of the Royal Society10 February 1893
NLB/8/414Copy letter from the Assistant Secretary [Herbert Rix], to Messrs Harrison & Sons23 October 1893
NLB/9/461Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Thomas McKenny Hughes, Fellow of the Royal Society22 May 1894
NLB/11/403Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Thomas McKenny Hughes, Fellow of the Royal Society21 June 1895
NLB/14/831Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Archibald Geikie, Fellow of the Royal Society26 May 1897
NLB/14/822Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Thomas McKenny Hughes, Fellow of the Royal Society25 May 1897
NLB/14/838Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, The Foreign Office, Downing Street, S.W.26 May 1897
NLB/19/11Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Thomas McKenny Hughes, Fellow of the Royal Society2 June 1899
NLB/19/91Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Thomas McKenny Hughes, Fellow of the Royal Society17 June 1899
NLB/23/2/47Copy letter from Sir Michael Foster, to Professor Thomas McKenny Hughes, Fellow of the Royal Society26 March 1901
NLB/23/2/419Copy letter sent from unknown correspondent, to Professor McKenny Hughes, Fellow of the Royal Society 14 December 1903
NLB/23/2/414Copy letter sent from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Thomas McKenny Hughes, Fellow of the Royal Society11 December 1903
NLB/23/1/759Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Thomas McKenny Hughes, Fellow of the Royal Society17 January 1902
NLB/28/60Copy letter from [Theodore E James], to [Messrs Harrison & Sons]4 January 1904
NLB/27/697Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Thomas McKenny Hughes, Fellow of the Royal Society14 November 1903
NLB/27/656Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Thomas McKenny Hughes, Fellow of the Royal Society, Woodwardian Museum, Cambridge10 November 1903
NLB/40/571Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor T [Thomas] McKenny Hughes FRS 29 June 1909
NLB/54/580Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Archibald Geikie, FRS25 June 1917
NLB/53/84Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Thomas] McKenny Hughes, FRSUndated
EC/1889/12Hughes, Thomas McKenny: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MC/14/47Letter from Thomas McKenny Hughes, Cambridge, to [Thomas George] Bonney13 June 1885
MC/16/225Letter from [Thomas] McKenny Hughes, 18 Hill Road, Cambridge, to [John] Evans7 June 1895
MC/16Volume 16 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1893-1896
MC/16/226Letter from [Thomas] McKenny Hughes, 18 Hill Road, Cambridge, to Lord Kelvin [William Thomson]7 June 1895
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