| Authorised form of name | Bailey; Sir; Edward Battersby (1881 - 1965); geologist |
| Dates | 1881 - 1965 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Marsden, Kent, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of birth | 01 July 1881 |
| Place of death | Middlesex Hospital, London, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of death | 19 March 1965 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Cremation: Golders Green Crematorium |
| Occupation | Geologist |
| Research field | Geology |
| Activity | Education: Kendal grammar school; Clare College, Cambridge BA
Career:
Joined the geological survey as a field geologist (1902); served in the First World War with the Royal Garrison Artillery, was wounded twice, losing his left eye and much use of his left arm (1915-1919); Professor of geology at the University of Glasgow (1929-1937); director of the British Geological Survey (1937-1945); lieutenant commanding the geological survey and London region section of the Home Guard (1940-1942)
Honours:
MC 1916; Kt 1945
Awards/Medals:
Bolitho Medal of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall 1937
Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London 199
Memberships:
FRSE (President 135-1937)
FGS |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 15/05/1930 |
| Age at election | 49 |
| Proposer | William Whitehead Watts |
| Percy Fry Kendall |
| John Horne |
| John Smith Flett |
| Aubrey Strahan |
| Alfred Harker |
| John Edward Marr |
| George William Lamplugh |
| RSActivity | Royal Society roles:
VP 1944-1945
Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1943 |
| Relationships | Parents: James Battersby Bailey (1852–1899), medical practitioner, and Louise Florence (bap. 1857, d. 1937), daughter of Isaac Carr, a Cumberland farmer.
Spouse: 1) Alice Meason (1884–1956), daughter of David Meason of Kirkwall, and a sister of the wife of Sir John Flett; 2) (m. 3 December 1962) Mary McLaren Wilson Young (1902–1995), housekeeper; daughter of George McLaren Young, grocer, of Oban.
Children: One son and one daughter. |
| PublishedWorks | RCN 26042
RCN 8321 |
| OtherInfo | Engaged in geological investigation in Scotland since 1902, and has made important contributions to our knowledge in this field. Has introduced new conceptions into the interpretation of several geological problems in Scotland, particularly in respect to the complicated tectonic structure of the old Highland rocks. Author or joint-author of many papers and Survey memoirs. |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
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| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB; DNB
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1965 vol 11 pp 1-21, plate, by C J Stubblefield |
| Code | NA4963 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| RR/72/48 | Referee's report by Edward Battersby Bailey, on a paper 'The British submarine gravity surveys of 1938 and 1946' by B C Browne and R I B Cooper | 1949 |
| IM/GA/WS/1305 | Bailey, Sir Edward Battersby | nd |
| EC/1930/02 | Bailey, Sir Edward Battersby: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/68/405 | Referee's report by Edward Battersby Bailey, on a paper 'Pebbles, natural and artificial, Their shape under various conditions of abrasion' by Robert John Strutt | [1943] |
| MDA/N/1/16 | Correspondence between Edward Bailey and the Royal Society | 22 October 1945-1 May 1961 |
| RR/W/1/58 | Referee's report by [Edward Battersby] Bailey, on a paper 'Washouts and Earthquake Phenomena in Coal Seams' by [Percy Fry] Kendall | [December 1932] |
| RR/46/1 | Referee's report by Edward Battersby Bailey, on a paper 'On washouts and earthquake phenomena in coal seams' by Percy Fry Kendall | [December 1932] |