Thomas Oldham
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| Date | Details |
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| 1816 | Born in Dublin. |
| Educated at private school in Dublin and Trinity College. Took B.A. degree. | |
| 1837-1838 | Studied engineering at Edinburgh, and geology and mineralogy under Jamieson. |
| 1839 | Returned to Ireland, became Geological Assistant to General Portlock R.E. (Geology Department, Ordnance Survey of Ireland) and assisted in survey of Derry and Tyrone. (Report 1843). |
| Became Curator and Assistant Secretary to Geological Society, Dublin, also Assistant Secretary to Institute of Civil Engineers of Ireland. | |
| 1844 | Appointed Assistant Professor of Engineering in Trinity College Dublin, under Professor J. MacNeill. |
| 1845 | Succeeded Professor Phillips to Chair of Geology at Dublin. |
| 1846 | Lecturer to Geological Society Dublin. Local Director of Survey for Ireland. |
| 1848 | President Geological Society Dublin. Elected F.R.S. |
| 1844-1849 | 12 papers to British Association and Dublin Geological Society Journal, all on Irish geology and palaeontology. |
| 1849 | Discovery of Oldhamia in Cambrian rocks of Wicklow Hills (named by E. Forbes). |
| 1850 | Resigned from Survey. |
| 1851 | Appointed Director of Geological Survey of India. |
| 1857 | Elected Member Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal (4 times President). |
| 1862-1864 | Memoir with J. Morris “Fossil Flora of Rajmahal Series”. |
| 1863 | Paper to Geological Society of London “On occurrence of rocks of Upper Cretaceous age in Eastern Bengal”. |
| 1867 | Report to Secretary of State for India : “On the coal resources of India”. |
| 16 memoirs on Coalfields of India. | |
| Presented report on geology of India at British Association in Dundee. | |
| 1875 | Gold Medal Royal Society. Also Gold Medal from Emperor of Austria. Member of following societies: “Imperial Academy “Isis” Society of Dresden”; Imperial Society of Nationalists, Moscow”; Royal Geological Society, Cornwall”; Geological Society of Edinburgh |
| 1876 | Retired. |
| 1878 | Died July 17th. |
Biographies and obituaries[edit]
Obituary - Thomas Oldham, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., Late Director of the Geological Survey of India. Born May, 1816, died 17th July 1878. Geologists Magazine. New Series. v. 5 p.382-384. 1878
Quarterly Journal Geological Society (1879) p. 46
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Oldham Thomas Oldham] — Wikipedia article
Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). Oldham, Thomas. Dictionary of National Biography. 42. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 111–112.
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Oldham, Thomas. Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
Patrick N. Wyse Jackson, 2005 Thomas Oldham (1816–1878). Earth Sciences 2000 Issue 12
Publications[edit]
Works listed in the BGS Library catalogue
Oldham, T. 1867. The coal resources and production of India. - Calcutta: Secretary of State for India
India. Geological Survey; Museum. Oldham, T. Museum of the Geological Survey of India. 1866. Catalogue of the meteorites in the Museum of the Geological Survey of India, Calcutta. - Calcutta: The Survey
Oldham, T. [Biographical information on Thomas Oldham] — Obituary files
BGS archives[edit]
| Ref No | Title | Description |
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| GSM/DC/A/C/3/133,188 | T. Oldham: Letter to H.T. De la Beche about the Geological Survey of Ireland. | |
| GSM/DC/A/C/3/206,209,270 | T. Oldham: Letters from H.T. De la Beche about the Geological Survey of Ireland. | |
| GSM/DC/A/C/3/226 | T. Oldham: Annual Reports by Oldham. | |
| GSM/DC/A/C/3/247,271,275 | T. Oldham: Letters from H.T. De la Beche making payments of money. |
