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| Date |
Details
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| 1901 |
Born
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| 1928 |
Geologist
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| 1840 |
Born May 8th in Kingstown, County Dublin, son of Glascott Symes M.D. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, M.A. and Engineering degrees.
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| 1863 |
Joined Geological Survey of ireland as Assistant Geologist under J.B. Jukes.
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| 1869 |
Promoted to Geologist.
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Surveyed 6 one inch sheets and part of 17 others.
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| 1874 |
Secretary of Section C. at British Association in Belfast.
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| 1878 |
Secretary of Section C. at British Association in Dublin.
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| 1890 |
Transferred to Scotland on completion of 1 inch survey of Ireland. Surveyed parts of Kintyre and Oban districts.
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| 1900 |
Retired from Survey.
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| 1906 |
Died July 27th near Dublin.
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Biographies and obituaries
Obituary - Richard Glascott Symes, M.A. Born 8th May 1840, died 27th July 1906. Geologists Magazine. New Series. v. 3 p.432. 1906
Obituary of Richard Glascott Symes by C., R. Published 1906. The Irish naturalist: a monthly journal of general Irish natural history , Vol. XV, No. 11, pp. 249-250, November, 1906
Publications
77 works listed in the BGS Library catalogue
BGS archives
| Ref No |
Title |
Description
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| GSM/GL/Sy |
R G Symes |
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