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Authorised form of nameHutton; Frederick Wollaston (1836 - 1905); geologist; zoologist
Dates1836 - 1905
NationalityBritish
Place of birthGate Burton, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom
Date of birth16 November 1836
Place of deathAt sea, near Cape Town, South Africa, Africa
Date of death27/10/1905
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
At sea, near Cape Town, South Africa, Africa
OccupationGeologist and zoologist
Research fieldEvolution
Petrology
Palaeontology
Geology
Biology
ActivityEducation:
Revd L. Fletcher's Grammar School in Southwell, Nottinghamshire; The Royal Navy Academy, Gosport; King's College, London
Career:
joined the Royal Welch Fusiliers, serving in the Crimea, India during the mutiny, Malta, England, and Ireland; Captain, Royal Engineers; studied geology and worked with the geological survey in southern England, Sandhurst (1860-1861); retired from the army with the rank of captain (1865); emigrated to Auckland, New Zealand (1866); assistant geologist in the New Zealand geological survey (1871); provincial geologist of Otago and at the same time was appointed curator of the provincial museum and lecturer in geology at the university (1873); Professor of Geology, Canterbury College, Christchurch, New Zealand (1877-1892); then curator of the museum (1892-1905).
Memberships:
FGS; CMZS; Cor du Mus d'Hist Nat Paris; Cor Mem Roy Soc Tas; Hon Mem Roy Soc NSW; Cor Aead Nat Sci Philad; Cor Ornith Ver Wien; Cor K K Geol Reichsanst Wien.
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election02/06/1892
Age at election56
ProposerHenry Woodward
Robert Henry Scott
Alex Macalister
William Archer
Samuel Haughton
T Russell Jones
William Francis Drummond Jervois
Frederick M'Coy
Robert Lewis John Ellery
Ferdinand von Mueller
William Colenso
Walter Lawry Buller
Thomas Jeffery Parker
James Hector
Archibald Liversidge
George Verdon
RelationshipsParents: Reverend Henry Frederick Hutton and Louisa, daughter of the Revd Henry John Wollaston of Scotter, Lincolnshire.
Spouse: Annie Gouger (1844/5–1916), sixth daughter of Dr William Montgomerie, former superintendent surgeon of the Bengal medical service of the East India Company, and Elizabeth Graham.
Children: Three sons and three daughters.
PublishedWorksRCN 45505
RCN 45506
RCN 45507
OtherInfoPublished manuals on a large number of animal groups.
Known as the father of New Zealand zoology.
Image

Hutton F W, IM002332.jpg

SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1907 vol 79 pp xli-xliv
References:
Robin J H Clark and Michael J Kelly, 'New Zealand, New Zealanders and the Royal Society' in NR 1994 vol 48 pp 263-281
CodeNA7942
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
NLB/6/775Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Captain Frederick Wollaston Hutton, Fellow of the Royal Society11 July 1892
NLB/6/952Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Manager, Bank of New Zealand, London23 September 1892
NLB/7/614Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons22 March 1893
NLB/8/644Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to A W Hutton, Librarian, National Liberal Club1 December 1893
NLB/8/994Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons7 February 1894
NLB/23/1/109Copy letter from R Chapman, to Captain Frederick Wollaston Hutton, Fellow of the Royal Society, Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand23 September 1901
EC/1892/16Hutton, Frederick Wollaston: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/002332Hutton, Frederick Wollaston1890
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