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Authorised form of nameMcCoy; Sir; Frederick (1823 - 1899)
Dates1823 - 1899
Place of birthDublin, Ireland
Date of birth1823
Place of deathMaritima', his house at Brighton Beach, near Melbourne, Australia
Date of death13 or 15 or 16 May 1899
ActivityEducation:
Dublin, Cambridge. DSc (Cambridge)
Career:
Gave up medicine in favour of natural science; worked on Geological Survey of Ireland; Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, Queen's College, Belfast; Professor of Natural Sciences, University of Melbourne; Government Palaeontologist; established the National museum of Natural History, Melbourne, and was its Director
Honours:
CMG 1886; KCMG 1891
Memberships:
FGS; HMCPS
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election03/06/1880
RelationshipsSon of Dr Simon McCoy of Dublin
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1905 vol 75 pp 43-45 signed by H W
Notes:
WWW gives death date as 15 May 1899, TR/BR give 16 May 1899.
References:
R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 2. After 1847' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 47-84
CodeNA5819
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1880/12McCoy, Sir Frederick: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MM/17/121Letter from Frederick McCoy to Walter White, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society23 March 1882
NLB/2/654Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor McCoy, Fellow of the Royal Society4 October 1888
NLB/19/415Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Frederick H McCoy, Maritima, Brighton Beach, Melbourne 27 September 1899
NLB/19/515Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, President of the Royal Society20 October 1899
NLB/20/333Copy letter from Theodore E James, to The Manager, Bank of Victoria, 28 Clements Lane, E.C.26 March 1900
MC/11/71Letter from Geo [George] Verdon, Melbourne, Victoria, to Walter White, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society8 June 1877
MC/11Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1877-1879
MC/12/83Letter from Frederick McCoy, University Melbourne, to Professor G G [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society, London22 July 1880
MC/12Volume 12 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1880-1883
MC/14Volume 14 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1885-1888
MC/14/110Letter from Alexander Sutherland, Honourable Secretary, Royal Society of Victoria, Melbourne, to the Secretary of the Royal Society26 February 1886
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