Authorised form of name | Hull; Edward (1829 - 1917); geologist |
Dates | 1829 - 1917 |
Nationality | British |
Place of birth | Antrim, County Antrim, Ulster, Ireland |
Date of birth | 21 May 1829 |
Place of death | 14 Stanley Gardens, Kensington, London, England |
Date of death | 18/10/1917 |
Occupation | Geologist |
Research field | Surveying |
Geology |
Activity | Education: Schools in Edgeworthstown, co. Longford and Lucan, co. Dublin; Trinity College, Dublin. BA Career: Joined Geological Survey of Great Britain under Sir Henry Thomas De la Beche (1796–1855) (1850); responsible for mapping the south Lancashire coalfield (1860-1867); improved his work under la Beche’s successor, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792–1871) (FRS 1826) (1855); district surveyor of geological survey of Scotland under Archibald Geikie (1835–1924) (FRS 1865), when he mapped the Lanarkshire coalfield (1867); sent to Dublin to take charge of the Irish survey (1869); became Irish director (1869); supervised the preparation of the eighty-five sheets necessary to complete the survey's one-inch geological map of Ireland (1869-1890); visited Hungary (1873) and USA (1890) as a private consultant; led an expedition to the Wadi Araba on behalf of the Palestine Exploration Fund, with Horatio Herbert Kitchener as a member of his party (1883-4); professor of geology in the Royal College of Science for Ireland (1869–1890); retired from the survey (1890); left Dublin for London; died of bronchitis (1917). Geological Survey of Ireland; worked in Wales and Lancashire; Geological Survey of Scotland (1867-1868); led expedition to survey parts of Arabia Petraea and Palestine (1883); Director, Irish branch of the Survey; retired (1891) Memberships: FGS (1855) Royal Geological Society of Ireland (President 1873–5) Awards/Medals: Murchison medal 1890 |
Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 06/06/1867 |
Age at election | 38 |
Proposer | Thomas Henry Huxley; John Tyndall; Williamm Pengelly; Joseph Beete Jukes; Joseph Prestwich; Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton; Warington Wilkinson Smyth; Edward William Brayley |
William Sanders; Andrew Crombie Ramsay; Charles Lyell; Henry William Bristow; James Prescott Joule; Robert Angus Smith; Frederick Crace Calvert; John Phillips; Archibald Geikie; Roderick Impey Murchison; Robert Hunt |
Relationships | Parents: Revd John Dawson Hull (c.1801–1886). Spouse: Mary Catherine Henrietta (d. 1901), daughter of Charles Turner Cooke of Cheltenham. Children: Two sons and four daughters, one of whom was Eleanor Hull (1860–1935), historian and founder of the Irish Texts Society. |
PublishedWorks | RCN 45319 RCN 45309 RCN 14678 RCN 45316 RCN 45321 RCN 45332 RCN 14679 RCN 45322 RCN 45323 RCN 45318 RCN 45311 RCN 45313 RCN 45314 RCN 45315 RCN 14677 RCN 45317 RCN 14680 RCN 45320 |
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Source | Sources: Bulloch's Roll Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc Series B 1917-1919 vol 90 pp xxviii-xxxi, plate, signed by H W |
Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/67245847 |
Code | NA6845 |
RefNo | Title | Date |
MC/11/23 | Letter from Edward Hull, Geological Survey of Ireland, Office, 14 Hume Street, Dublin, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society] | 1 March 1877 |
IM/002299 | Hull, Edward | 2001 |
IM/Maull/002300 | Hull, Edward | nd |
NLB/7/30 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Edward Hull, Fellow of the Royal Society | 14 November 1892 |
NLB/3/186 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Edward Hull, Fellow of the Royal Society | 5 April 1889 |
NLB/3/408 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Arthur Schuster, Fellow of the Royal Society | 3 June 1889 |
NLB/5/206 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrisons & Sons | 13 April 1891 |
RR/10/278 | Referee's report by Arthur Schuster, on a paper 'On a possible geological origin of terrestrial magnetism' by Edward Hull | nd [1889] |
NLB/6/354 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Edward Hull, Fellow of the Royal Society | 28 April 1892 |
NLB/7/800 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Edward Hull, Fellow of the Royal Society | [April 1893] |
AP/66/12/3 | Unpublished map, 'Map showing basaltic localities' by Edward Hull | 1889 |
NLB/15/691 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Edward Hull, Fellow of the Royal Society, 20 Arundel Gardens, W. | 17 November 1897 |
NLB/16/625 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Hull, Fellow of the Royal Society | 9 May 1898 |
NLB/25/766 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Edward Hull, Fellow of the Royal Society | 22 December 1902 |
NLB/36/293 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Edward Hull, Stanley Gardens, Notting Hill | 8 October 1907 |
NLB/39/472 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor E [Edward] Hull, Fellow of the Royal Society | 25 January 1909 |
NLB/39/395 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor E [Edward] Hull, Fellow of the Royal Society | 15 January 1909 |
NLB/40/83 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor E [Edward] Hull FRS | 5 April 1909 |
NLB/40/404 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor E [Edward] Hull FRS | 3 June 1909 |
NLB/50/649 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Edward Hull, Fellow of the Royal Society | 1 October 1914 |
NLB/51/583 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor Edward Hull FRS | 30 April 1915 |
NLB/54/861 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Messrs Harrison & Sons] | 22 October 1917 |
NLB/52/693 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor Edward Hull, FRS | 15 February 1916 |
AP/52/6/3 | Map, 'Map of England and Wales showing the distribution of the coalmeasures at the commencement of the Permian period' by Edward Hull and John Betts | 1870 |
AP/59/5/2 | Unpublished figure, 'Carboniferous beds of [County] Fermanagh [Ireland]' by Edward Hull | 1877 |
RR/7/104 | Referee's report by Andrew Crombie Ramsay, 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 | 21 January 1871 |
AP/59/5/3 | Unpublished figure, 'Carboniferous [levies] of Kilkenny [Ireland]' by Edward Hull | 1877 |
AP/59/5/4 | Unpublished figure, 'Dark chert in upper limestone north of Newmarket, County Cork [Ireland]' by Edward Hull | 1877 |
RR/8/39 | Referee's report by Henry Clifton Sorby, on a paper 'On the nature and origin of the beds of chert in the upper carboniferous limestones of Ireland' by Edward Hull and E T Hardman | 29 June 1877 |
AP/66/12/2 | Unpublished appendix, regarding 'On a possible geological origin of terrestrial magnetism' by Edward Hull | 29 May 1889 |
RR/10/277 | Referee's report by Arthur William Rucker, on a paper 'On a possible geological origin of terrestrial magnetism' by Edward Hull | 9 May 1889 |
RR/11/175 | Referee's report by Archibald Geikie, on a paper 'On the earthquake shocks in the British Isles and France in August 1892' by Edward Hull | 18 October 1892 |
AP/52/6/2 | Map, 'Map of England and Wales showing supposed areas of the coal-measures as originally deposited' by Edward Hull and John Betts | 1870 |
AP/66/12/4 | Unpublished diagram, 'Diagram to illustrate the analogy between the phenomena of terrestrial magnetism and that of an artificial magnet' by Edward Hull | 1889 |
RR/8/38 | Second referee's report by Henry Clifton Sorby, on a paper 'On the nature and origin of the beds of chert in the upper carboniferous limestones of Ireland' by Edward Hull and E T Hardman | nd [1877] |
AP/69/2 | Unpublished paper, 'Observations on the earthquake shocks which occurred in the British Isles and France during the month of August 1892' by Edward Hull | 1892 |
EC/1867/10 | Hull, Edward: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
AP/59/5 | Unpublished paper, 'On the beds of chert in the Carboniferous limestone of Ireland' by Edward Hull and E [Edward] T Hardman | 1877 |
MC/11/114 | Letter from Edward Hull, Geological Survey of Ireland, Office, 114 Hume-Street, Dublin, to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes, [Secretary of the Royal Society] | 5 November 1877 |
AP/52/6 | Unpublished paper, 'On the extension of the coal-fields of England beneath the newer formations; and the successive physical changes whereby they have been reduced to their present dimensions' by Edward Hull | 1870 |
MC/11 | Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1877-1879 |
AP/52/6/1 | Unpublished manuscript, 'On the extension of the coal-fields of England beneath the newer formations; and the successive physical changes whereby they have been reduced to their present dimensions' by Edward Hull | 1870 |
AP/52/6/4 | Map, 'Map of England and Wales showing the distribution of the coal-measures at the commencement of the Triassic period' by Edward Hull and John Betts | 1870 |
AP/59/5/1 | Unpublished manuscript, 'On the beds of chert in the Carboniferous limestone of Ireland' by Edward Hull and E T Hardman | 1877 |
AP/66/12/1 | Unpublished manuscript, 'On a possible geological origin of terrestrial magnetism' by Edward Hull | 1889 |
AP/66/12 | Unpublished paper, 'On a possible geological origin of terrestrial magnetism' by Edward Hull | 1889 |
PP/10/37 | Paper, 'Note on Dr G J Hinde’s paper "On beds of sponge-remains in the lower and upper greensand of the South of England"' by Edward Hull | 1887 |
RR/7/105 | Referee's report by Warington Wilkinson Smyth, 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 | 15 February 1871 |
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 |
RR/7/107 | Letter from Edward Hull, on his 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' to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 4 March 1871 |
RR/8/37 | Referee's report by Peter Martin Duncan, on a paper 'On the nature and origin of the beds of chert in the upper carboniferous limestones of Ireland' by Edward Hull and E T Hardman | 30 May 1877 |
RR/19/71 | Referee's report by Augustus Edward Hough Love, on a paper 'On the effect of continental attraction in determining the levels of the surface of adjoining oceanic-waters' by Edward Hull | 26 November 1912 |
MC/15/306 | Letter from Edward Hull, Constitutional Club, Northumberland Avenue, 20 Arundel Gardens, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 5 October 1892 |
MC/15 | Volume 15 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1889-1892 |
NLB/39/239 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor E [Edward] Hull, Fellow of the Royal Society | 14 December 1908 |
NLB/42/77 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor E [Edward] Hull FRS | 22 March 1910 |
NLB/50/684 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Edward] Hull, Fellow of the Royal Society | 12 October 1914 |
NLB/50/660 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Edward Hull, Fellow of the Royal Society | 6 October 1914 |
NLB/54/897 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to C. M. Hull Esquire; 14 Stanley Gardens, W. | 31 October 1917 |