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| 1832 || Born October 10th, Maidstone. Sone of Rev. T.S. Green, classical scholar and Master of Ashley-de-la-Zouche Grammar School. Educated at Ashley Grammar School and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
| 1861 || Born December 3rd at Bristol.
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| 1858 || 6th Wrangler. Elected Fellow of his College.
| 1889 || Joined Survey (8th July).
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| 1861 || Appointed Assistant Geologist with the Geological Survey (1867 Geologist). Worked in Midland Counties on Jurassic and Cretaceous, also Carboniferous of Derbyshire and Yorkshire etc.
| 1895 || Resigned 22nd March.
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| 1874 || Retired from Survey. Appointed to Professorship of Geology at Leeds (Yorkshire College). Completed official survey work after appointment.
| 1920 || Lyell Medal.
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| 1876 || Published “Manual of Physical Geology” (3rd edition 1883).
| 1951 || Died 4th March.
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| 1875 || Professor of Mathematics at Leeds (in addition to Geology). For several years held Lectureship in Geology at School of Military Engineering at Chatham.
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| 1886 || Elected F.R.S.
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| 1888 || Appointed Professor of Geology at Oxford (successor to Prestwich).
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| 1890 || President Geological Section, British Association, Leeds.
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|  || Examiner to London University, Science and Art Department (Asst), Durham University, Home and Indian Civil Service.
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| 1896 || Died August 19th near Oxford
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Revision as of 22:45, 9 August 2020

Edward Greenly

Timeline

Date Details
1861 Born December 3rd at Bristol.
1889 Joined Survey (8th July).
1895 Resigned 22nd March.
1920 Lyell Medal.
1951 Died 4th March.

Biographies and obituaries

Hicks, H. Obituary - Professor A.H. Green. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 53 p.lii-liv. 1897

Miall, L.C. Obituary - Professor A.H. Green, F.R.S., F.G.S. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society. v. 13 p.232-233.

Obituary - Alexander Henry Green, M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S. Born 10th October 1832, died 19th August 1896. Geologists Magazine. New Series. v. 3 p.480. 1896

Obituary - Alexander Henry Green, F.R.S. Mineralogical Magazine. v. 11 p.147. 1897

Publications

61 works listed on the BGS Library catalogue

Memoir: Banbury (1864)

Memoir: Stockport (1866) with E. Hull

Tadcaster (1879) with Aveline, Dakyns, C. Ward, Russell

Memoir: Dewsbury (1871) with Dakyns, C. Ward, Russell

Memoir: Barnsley (1878)

Memoir: Wakefield (1879)

Memoir: North Derbyshire (1869) Le Neve Foster and Dakyns

Memoir: North Derbyshire 2nd edition (1887) with Strahan

Memoir: Yorkshire Coalfield (1878) with Russell, Dakyns

Memoir, part of Yorkshire Coalfield *1869) with Dakyns and C. Ward

Carboniferous rocks of North of England

Sub-aerial denudation

Geology of Donegal

Geology of Malvern Hills

Essays upon Scientific Subjects

Birth and Growth of Worlds

Manual of Physical Geology

BGS archives

Ref No GSM/DR/Ft/A/2
Alt Ref No GSM1/310,311
Title Correspondence on range of issues: letters to Bromehead, C.Davidson, H.Dewey, Fairley, A.Geikie, Goodchild, E.Greenly, J.Horne, F.L.Kitchin, G.W.Lee, M.MacGregor, J.Phemister, J.Rhodes, B.Smith, W.J.Sollas, H.H.Thomas and Teall. Also 76 letters to Flett from 34 correspondents (includes guardbook)
Date 1902 - 1946

Other archives

List on Archives Hub

Edward Greenly, Bangor papers

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