| Authorised form of name | McCoy; Sir; Frederick (1823 - 1899) |
| Dates | 1823 - 1899 |
| Place of birth | Dublin, Ireland |
| Date of birth | 1823 |
| Place of death | Maritima', his house at Brighton Beach, near Melbourne, Australia |
| Date of death | 13 or 15 or 16 May 1899 |
| Activity | Education:
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
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 03/06/1880 |
| Relationships | Son of Dr Simon McCoy of Dublin |
| Sources | Sources:
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 |
| Royal Society code | NA5819 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1880/12 | McCoy, Sir Frederick: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MM/17/121 | Letter from Frederick McCoy to Walter White, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society | 23 March 1882 |
| NLB/2/654 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor McCoy, Fellow of the Royal Society | 4 October 1888 |
| NLB/19/415 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Frederick H McCoy, Maritima, Brighton Beach, Melbourne | 27 September 1899 |
| NLB/19/515 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, President of the Royal Society | 20 October 1899 |
| NLB/20/333 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to The Manager, Bank of Victoria, 28 Clements Lane, E.C. | 26 March 1900 |
| MC/11/71 | Letter from Geo [George] Verdon, Melbourne, Victoria, to Walter White, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 8 June 1877 |
| MC/11 | Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1877-1879 |
| MC/12/83 | Letter from Frederick McCoy, University Melbourne, to Professor G G [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society, London | 22 July 1880 |
| MC/12 | Volume 12 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1880-1883 |
| MC/14 | Volume 14 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1885-1888 |
| MC/14/110 | Letter from Alexander Sutherland, Honourable Secretary, Royal Society of Victoria, Melbourne, to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 26 February 1886 |