Alexander McHenry

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Timeline

Date	Details
1843	Born October 24th.
1861	Appointed Fossil Collector to Survey under J.B. Jukes in Ireland.
1877	Appointed Assistant Geologist.
1878	Charged with mapping the difficult districts in Mayo, including Achill Island, later Caledonian ridges of Donegal.
1890	Appointed Geologist.
1908	Retired.
1919	Died April 19th.

Biographies and obituaries

G. A. J. C. (1919). Alexander McHenry, M.R.I.A. Geological Magazine, 6(7), 336-336.DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S001675680020441X

Lamplugh, G.W. Obituary - Alexander McHenry. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 76 p.lx-lxi. 1920

Publications

Contributed to Memoirs on Giant’s Causeway and North-west and Central Donegal. Also maps and Memoirs on districts round larger cities of Ireland, issued under G.W. Lamplugh, 1903 onwards. Reported on inter basaltic iron-ores and bauxite in Antrim for Memoir published 1912.

80 works listed in the BGS Library catalogue

BGS archives

Ref No	Title	Description
GSM/DC/A/C/7/132,142,146,150,157	A McHenry: Letters on his appointment.
GSM/DC/A/C/23/73,77,83,86,140,141	A McHenry: Letters on his promotion.
GSM/DC/A/C/24/58,90-91,107,111,117	A McHenry: Letters on his promotion.
GSM/DC/A/C/25/79	A McHenry: Letter on his status.