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Authorised form of nameSmyth; Sir; Warington Wilkinson (1817 - 1890)
Dates1817 - 1890
NationalityBritish
Place of birthNaples, Italy
Date of birth26 August 1817
Place of deathIn the study of his residence, 5 Inverness Terrace, London
Date of death19 June 1890
Dates and placesBurial:
St Erth, Cornwall
OccupationGeologist
ActivityEducation:
MA (Cambridge)
Career:
Lecturer on Mining and Mineralogy, Government Schools of Mines; Inspector of the Mineral Property of the Crown
Honours:
Kt 1887
Memberships:
FGS
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election03/06/1858
RelationshipsBrother of Charles Piazzi Smyth FRS; son of Admiral William Henry Smyth FRS
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/59866505
Royal Society codeNA3531
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
NLB/1/363Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Mr Warington Wilkinson Smyth24 January 1887
NLB/5/104Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Walton, Fine Art Publishers, Shaftesbury Avenue18 March 1891
NLB/5/448Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Evans, [Royal Society]12 June 1891
RR/10/39Referee's report by Warington Wilkinson Smyth, on a paper 'A coal-dust explosion' by W Galloway15 March 1887
IM/004295Smyth, Sir Warington Wilkinsonnd
RR/9/32Referee's report by Warington Wilkinson Smyth, on a paper 'On the influence of coal-dust in colliery explosions. No. III' by W Galloway19 March 1882
RR/9/34Letter from Warington Wilkinson Smyth, on a paper 'On the influence of coal-dust in colliery explosions. No. III' by W Galloway to the Secretary of the Royal Society21 March 1882
EC/1858/14Smyth, Sir Warington Wilkinson: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MC/6/85Letter from Warington W [Wilkinson] Smyth, Geological Society, Somerset House, to [Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie], President of the Royal Society and to the Council30 May 1860
MS/426/697Copy letter from W [William] Sharpey, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Warrington W [Wilkington] Smyth Esq, FRS25 June 1860
MC/6Volume 6 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1859-1863
MC/10/182Letter from Warrington W [Wilkinson] Smyth, Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]24 December 1874
MC/10Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal SocietyJuly 1873-1876
AP/60/12Unpublished letter, 'Artifically formed diamonds' from James Mactear to the Secretary of the Royal Society14 December 1879
RR/8/296Referee's report by Warington Wilkinson Smyth, on a paper 'On the influence of coal-dust in colliery explosions. No. III' by W Galloway2 August 1881
RR/6/232Referee's report by Warington Wilkinson Smyth, on a paper 'Notes on the chemical geology of the gold-fields of California' by John Arthur Phillips18 April 1868
RR/7/105Referee'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 Hull15 February 1871
RR/8/302Second referee's report by Warington Wilkinson Smyth, on a paper 'On the influence of coal-dust in colliery explosions. No. III' by W Galloway16 January 1882
MC/14/242Letter from Warington [Wilkinson] Smyth, London, to [Michael] Foster28 June 1887
MC/14Volume 14 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1885-1888
MC/19/327Letter from H W Gilbert Williams, Superintendent of Maps, Geological Survey and Museum, 28 Jermyn Street, London, to the Secretary of the Royal Society16 August 1904
MC/19Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1904
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