Person Woodward; Horace Bolingbroke (1848 - 1914); geologist Woodward Horace Bolingbroke geologist 1848 - 1914 British Male London, England 20 August 1848 18480820 85 Coombe Road, Croydon, London, England 06/02/1914 19140206

geologist Geology Education: Private school Career: Appointed assistant to the Secretary, Mr. H. M. Jenkins, Geological Society (1863); Appointed Assistant Geologist on Geological Survey under Sir Roderick Murchison (1867-1908); worked under Bristow in Somerset and other districts; Took part in first drift survey of London area; transferred to Somerset Coalfield, worked in Devon, Somerset and Dorset; transferred to Norfolk and Norwich (1867); promoted to Geologist (1875); Murchison Fund (1885); took charge of Jermyn Street Office under Archibald Geikie (FRS 1865) on the death of Topley (1894); appointed District Surveyor (1896); Acting Director for England and Wales (1899); Assistant to Director (1901); retired (1908). Memberships: FGS (1868) (VP 1904-6) Honorary Member of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club Essex Field Club Geologists' Association (President 1893-4) Awards/Medals: Murchison Medal 1897 Wollaston Medal 1909 Parents: Samuel Pickworth Woodward, geologist, of the Department of Geology in the British Museum (1848-65), second son of Samuel Woodward, geologist and antiquary. Spouse: Miss Alice Jennings at Dorking (d.1902), 5 June 1873. Children: Mrs. Sydney Barnwell Fellow 04/06/1896 48 Joseph Prestwich; William Whitaker; Wilfred Hudelston Hudleston; Thomas McKenny Hughes; John Wesley Judd; Thomas Rupert Jones; Alexander Henry Green; William Topley; Jethro Justinian Harris Teall Archibald Geikie; Henry Woodward; Lazarus Fletcher; William Carruthers; Edward Hull; St George Jackson Mivart; R Etheridge; T G Bonney; H Hicks; R Meldola; St George Mivart; H H Godwin-Austen; H G Seeley; E Hull; H H Godwin-Austen; H G Seeley; E Hull Sources: Bulloch's Roll; BGS Earthwise, Horace Bolingbroke Woodward F.R.S., F.G.S.[URL:https://earthwise.bgs.ac.uk/index.php/Horace_Bolingbroke_Woodward_F.R.S.,_F.G.S.; last accessed 14/03/2024); Obituary - Horace Bolingbroke Woodward, Proceedings of the Geologists Association. v. 26 p.142-144. 1915 [URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/7D650033C7A05BFDC490B903B0171EE8/S0016756800138282a.pdf/div-class-title-horace-bolingbroke-woodward-f-r-s-f-g-s-div.pdf; last accessed: 14/03/2024] Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc Series B 1919-1920 vol 91 pp xxxi-xxxii signed by W W Woodward H B, IM Maull 004994.jpg International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 RCN 16352 RCN R68169 RCN R68170 RCN 51000 RCN 42386 RCN R68171 RCN R68172 RCN 24408 RCN R68164 RCN R68165 RCN R68166 RCN R68167 RCN 50999 20 Aug 1848 - 6 Feb 1914 The past Fellows entries are under continuous revision. If you have queries or additional information to contribute, please contact Library@royalsociety.org. Content in external sources is not controlled by the Royal Society and historical sources may include content that is now unacceptable. Reviewed on 14/03/2024 as part of the Name Authority Project update. NA2164 21/11/2001 Andyg Martind 14/03/2024 RS_NET\VidaM Yes 030f1df1-f93f-42cf-a6f9-8d555c752895