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Authorised form of nameHolland; Sir; Thomas Henry (1868 - 1947); geologist and civil servant
Dates1868 - 1947
NationalityBritish
Place of birthHelston, Cornwall, England
Date of birth22 November 1868
Place of deathSurbiton, Surrey, England
Date of death15/05/1947
Occupationgeologist and civil servant
Research fieldGeology
ActivityEducation:
Normal School of Science and Royal School of Mines, South Kensington; Royal College of Science, London (1888)
Career:
Berkeley Fellow, Owens College, Manchester (1889); Assistant Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India and curator of the Geological Museum and Laboratory (1890); Director of the Geological Survey of India (1903); returned to Britain (1910); appointed to the Royal Commission on Fuel and Engines (1912); rector or Imperial College London (1922-1929); Principal of the University of Edinburgh (1929-1944).
Honours:
KCIE 1908; KCSI 1918
Memberships:
FRSE
FGS
British Association (President 1928–1929)
Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society
Geographical Association (President 1937–1938)
Awards/Medals:
Murchison medal 1887
Albert Medal 1939
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election05/05/1904
Age at election36
ProposerLazarus Fletcher; Henry Woodward;Richard Lydekker; Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston; John Edward Marr; Henry Alexander Miers; William Johnson Sollas; William Boyd Dawkins
William Thomas Blanford; Henry Benedict Medlicott; Jethro Justinian Harris Teall; Thomas George Bonney; Charles Alexander McMahon; William Whitaker
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
VP 1924-1925
RelationshipsParents: John Holland, a miller, formerly of Springfield, Manitoba, and his wife, Grace Treloar, daughter of William Roberts, farmer.
Spouse: 1) (23 December 1896) Frances Maud Chapman, daughter of Charles Chapman, Deputy Commissioner in Oudh (she died 1942); 2) (1946) Helen Ethleen, daughter of Frank Verrall of Bramley, near Guildford
Children: One son and one daughter by Frances Maude
PublishedWorksRCN 14640
Royal Society Obituary or MemoirClick to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1948-1949 vol 6 pp 83-114, plate, by L L Fermor
CodeNA6076
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1904/06Holland, Sir Thomas Henry: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MDA/A/25/18/12Letter from A V Hill, Secretary of the Royal Society, to Sir Thomas Holland, FRS, Courtfield Gardens SW523 October 1944
MDA/A/22/66Letter from Thomas Holland to William Bragg, University of Edinburgh12 September 1939
MDA/A/22/67Copy letter from William Bragg to Thomas Holland13 September 1939
MDA/A/22/68Letter from Thomas Holland to William Bragg, University of Edinburgh16 September 1939
NLB/32/665Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Messrs Harrison & Sons]3 May 1906
NLB/42/240Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir T [Thomas] H [Henry] Holland KCIE, FRS29 April 1910
NLB/42/338Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison] to M le Professeur Helge Buckstrom, Stockholm25 May 1910
NLB/57/494Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to unknown correspondent18 November 1919
NLB/57/85Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to unknown correspondent16 July 1919
RR/58/69Referee's report by Thomas Henry Holland, on a paper 'Royal Society expedition to Montserrat, B. W. I. : Preliminary report on the geology of Montserrat' by A G MacGregor17 August 1936
NLB/62/275Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Thomas [Henry] Holland, FRS17 January 1922
NLB/36/347Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs H S King & Company, 9 Pall Mall, S.W.16 October 1907
NLB/67/613Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Thomas [Henry] Holland, KCSI, KCIE, FRS29 January 1925
NLB/65/367Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Thomas [Henry] Holland, KCSI, FRS19 October 1923
NLB/65/394Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Honourable Sir Charles [Algernon] Parsons, KCB, FRS; also sent to Professor [Charles Glover] Barkla, Professor [Arthur Stanley] Eddington, Sir [William Henry] Bragg, Professor [Thomas Ralph] Merton, Professor [Jocelyn Field] Thorpe, Sir [Frederick William] Andrewes, Professor [Edwin Stephen] Goodrich, Sir [Thomas Henry] Holland and Sir [Frederick William] Keeble.25 October 1923
NLB/68/622Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Thomas Holland, KCSI, KCIE, FRS24 September 1925
NLB/68/322Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Thomas Holland, KCSI, FRS19 June 1925
NLB/66/515Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, USA.21 May 1924
NLB/66/476Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS16 May 1924
NLB/66/616Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Thomas Holland, K.C.S.I, FRS6 June 1924
NLB/67/843Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [John] Horne, FRS23 March 1925
NLB/69/589Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Thomas [Henry] Holland, KSCI, FRS12 June 1926
NLB/68/199Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Thomas Holland, FRS28 May 1925
MS/768Some papers realting to official visits of Thomas Henry Holland1944-1966
NLB/57/619Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lt. Colonol Sir David Prain, Treasurer of the Royal Society, FRS, CMG, 17 December 1919
NLB/55/577Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to William Foster Esq., C.I.E., Registar & Superintendent of Records, India Office17 June 1918
RR/64/23Referee's report by Thomas Henry Holland, on a paper 'The geological history of the Lake Rudolf Basin, Kenya colony' by Vivian Ernest Fuchs[1937]
MC/28/186Letter from [Henry George] Lyons, The Royal Society, Burlington House, London, W, to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]2 October 1913
MC/31/75Letter from [Thomas Henry] Holland, Westwood, Alderley Edge, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]11 April 1916
MC/22/121Letter from F M Holland, 31 Jevington Gardens, Eastbourne, to the Royal Society1 October 1907
MC/22/122Letter from F M Holland, 31 Jevington Gardens, Eastbourne, to the Royal Society8 October 1907
MC/32/140Letter from [Thomas] Hill, Grand Hotel, Eastbourne, to the [Royal Society]27 September 1917
MC/33/89Letter from [Thomas Henry] Holland, Indian Munitions Board, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]10 December 1917
MC/22Volume 22 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1907
ACS/1/2/2/832Letter from [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton, to Sir Thomas Holland, 6 Etherby Gardens, S. W. 5.5 December 1927
ACS/1/2/3/200Letter from [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton, to Sir Thomas Holland, K. C. S. I, K. C. I. E., F. R. S22 March 1928
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