| Authorised form of name | Holland; Sir; Thomas Henry (1868 - 1947); geologist and civil servant |
| Dates | 1868 - 1947 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Helston, Cornwall, England |
| Date of birth | 22 November 1868 |
| Place of death | Surbiton, Surrey, England |
| Date of death | 15/05/1947 |
| Occupation | geologist and civil servant |
| Research field | Geology |
| Activity | Education:
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 category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 05/05/1904 |
| Age at election | 36 |
| Proposer | Lazarus 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 |
| Royal Society activity | Royal Society roles:
VP 1924-1925 |
| Relationships | Parents: 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 |
| Published works | RCN 14640 |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
| Sources | Sources:
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 |
| Royal Society code | NA6076 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1904/06 | Holland, Sir Thomas Henry: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MDA/A/25/18/12 | Letter from A V Hill, Secretary of the Royal Society, to Sir Thomas Holland, FRS, Courtfield Gardens SW5 | 23 October 1944 |
| MDA/A/22/66 | Letter from Thomas Holland to William Bragg, University of Edinburgh | 12 September 1939 |
| MDA/A/22/67 | Copy letter from William Bragg to Thomas Holland | 13 September 1939 |
| MDA/A/22/68 | Letter from Thomas Holland to William Bragg, University of Edinburgh | 16 September 1939 |
| NLB/32/665 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Messrs Harrison & Sons] | 3 May 1906 |
| MC/22/121 | Letter from F M Holland, 31 Jevington Gardens, Eastbourne, to the Royal Society | 1 October 1907 |
| NLB/42/240 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir T [Thomas] H [Henry] Holland KCIE, FRS | 29 April 1910 |
| NLB/42/338 | Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison] to M le Professeur Helge Buckstrom, Stockholm | 25 May 1910 |
| NLB/57/494 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to unknown correspondent | 18 November 1919 |
| NLB/57/85 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to unknown correspondent | 16 July 1919 |
| RR/58/69 | Referee'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 MacGregor | 17 August 1936 |
| NLB/62/275 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Thomas [Henry] Holland, FRS | 17 January 1922 |
| NLB/36/347 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs H S King & Company, 9 Pall Mall, S.W. | 16 October 1907 |
| NLB/67/613 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Thomas [Henry] Holland, KCSI, KCIE, FRS | 29 January 1925 |
| NLB/65/367 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Thomas [Henry] Holland, KCSI, FRS | 19 October 1923 |
| NLB/65/394 | Copy 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/68/622 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Thomas Holland, KCSI, KCIE, FRS | 24 September 1925 |
| NLB/68/322 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Thomas Holland, KCSI, FRS | 19 June 1925 |
| NLB/66/515 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, USA. | 21 May 1924 |
| NLB/66/476 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS | 16 May 1924 |
| NLB/66/616 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Thomas Holland, K.C.S.I, FRS | 6 June 1924 |
| NLB/67/843 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [John] Horne, FRS | 23 March 1925 |
| NLB/69/589 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Thomas [Henry] Holland, KSCI, FRS | 12 June 1926 |
| NLB/68/199 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Thomas Holland, FRS | 28 May 1925 |
| MS/768 | Some papers realting to official visits of Thomas Henry Holland | 1944-1966 |
| NLB/57/619 | Copy 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/55/577 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to William Foster Esq., C.I.E., Registar & Superintendent of Records, India Office | 17 June 1918 |
| MC/33/89 | Letter from [Thomas Henry] Holland, Indian Munitions Board, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society] | 10 December 1917 |
| RR/64/23 | Referee'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/28/186 | Letter from [Henry George] Lyons, The Royal Society, Burlington House, London, W, to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society] | 2 October 1913 |
| MC/31/75 | Letter from [Thomas Henry] Holland, Westwood, Alderley Edge, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society] | 11 April 1916 |
| MC/22/122 | Letter from F M Holland, 31 Jevington Gardens, Eastbourne, to the Royal Society | 8 October 1907 |
| MC/32/140 | Letter from [Thomas] Hill, Grand Hotel, Eastbourne, to the [Royal Society] | 27 September 1917 |
| MC/22 | Volume 22 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1907 |