Hugh Leonard

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Timeline

Date	Details
1841	Born
1867	Appointed Assistant Geologist, Irish branch of Geological Survey. Under G.H. Kinahan surveyed large tracts of Mayo, Galway and County cavan and revised survey of Enniscorthy district in County Wexford.
	Elected F.G.S., Member of Royal Irish Academy, Hon. Secretary Royal Geological Society (Ireland).
1881	Retired (result of accident).
1909	Died February 16th at Blackrock, County Dublin.

Biographies and obituaries

Geological Magazine (1909) p.191 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756800120898

Publications

Works listed in the BGS Library catalogue

Survey publications

Leonard, H. ; Baily, W.H. (1878). Explanatory memoir to accompany sheets 68 and 69 of the maps of the Geological Survey of Ireland, illustrating parts of the counties of Cavan, Leitrim, and Monaghan (with palaeontological notes by WH Baily) Mem Geol Surv Irel (Sheet) (Dublin). (Memoir (Sheet) Geological Survey of Ireland). Dublin : HMSO.

Kinahan, G.H. ; Symes, R.G. ; Wilkinson, S.B.N. ; Nolan, J. ; Baily, W.H. ; Leonard, H. (1876). Explanatory memoir to accompany sheets 73 and 74 (in part), 83 and 84 of the maps of the Geological Survey of Ireland (with palaeontological notes by WH Baily) Mem Geol Surv Irel (Sheet) (Dublin). (Memoir (Sheet) Geological Survey of Ireland; 73-). Dublin : HMSO.

Kinahan, G.H. ; Nolan, J. ; Leonard, H. ; Cruise, R.J. ; Baily, W.H. (1878). Explanatory memoir to accompany sheets 93 and 94 with the adjoining portions of sheets 83,84 and 103 of the maps of the Geological Survey of Ireland, Connemara (with palaeontological notes by WH Baily) Mem Geol Surv Irel (Sheet) (Dublin). (Memoir (Sheet) Geological Survey of Ireland; 93-94+8). Dublin : HMSO.

Kinahan, G.H. ; Leonard, H. ; Cruise, R.J. (1871). Explanatory memoir to accompany sheets 104 and 113 with the adjoining portions of sheets 103 and 122 (Kilkieran and Aran Sheets), of the Geological Survey of Ireland, illustrating a portion of the county of Galway. (Memoir (Sheet) Geological Survey of Ireland; 104+113). Dublin : HMSO.

Maps

Geological Survey of Ireland ; Traill, W.A. ; Leonard, H. (1877). Sheet 40. (Geological Survey of Ireland one inch [geological map series], 1:63 360). Dublin : Geological Survey of Ireland.

Geological Survey of Ireland ; Symes, R.G. ; Wilkinson, S.B.N. ; Leonard, W.B. ; Leonard, H. ; Traill, W.A. ; McHenry, A. (1879). Sheet 52. (Geological Survey of Ireland one inch [geological map series], 1:63 360). Dublin : Geological Survey of Ireland.

Geological Survey of Ireland ; Leonard, H. ; Egan, F.W. (1878, rev. 1901). Sheet 68 Cavan. Rev. ed. / Silurian Rocks revised. (Geological Survey of Ireland one inch [geological map series], 1:63 360). Dublin : Geological Survey of Ireland.

Geological Survey of Ireland ; Leonard, H. (1878). Sheet 68 Cavan. (Geological Survey of Ireland one inch [geological map series], 1:63 360). Dublin : Geological Survey of Ireland.

Geological Survey of Ireland ; Wilkinson, S.B.N. ; Kinahan, G.H. ; Symes, R.G. ; Warren, J.L. ; Leonard, H. (1874). Sheet 83. (Geological Survey of Ireland one inch [geological map series], 1:63 360). Dublin : Geological Survey of Ireland.

Geological Survey of Ireland ; Wilkinson, S.B.N. ; Kinahan, G.H. ; Symes, R.G. ; Warren, J.L. ; Leonard, H. ; Nolan, J. (1874). Sheet 84. (Geological Survey of Ireland one inch [geological map series], 1:63 360). Dublin : Geological Survey of Ireland.

Geological Survey of Ireland ; Kinahan, G.H. ; Warren, J.L. ; Leonard, H. ; Cruise, R.J. ; Nolan, J. (1876). Sheet 93 Clifden. (Geological Survey of Ireland one inch [geological map series], 1:63 360). Dublin : Geological Survey of Ireland.

Geological Survey of Ireland ; Nolan, J. ; Kinahan, G.H. ; Warren, J.L. ; Leonard, H. (1877). Sheet 94. (Geological Survey of Ireland one inch [geological map series], 1:63 360). Dublin : Geological Survey of Ireland.

Geological Survey of Ireland ; Kinahan, G.H. ; Leonard, H. ; Cruise, R.J. (1870). Sheet 104. (Geological Survey of Ireland one inch [geological map series], 1:63 360). Dublin : Geological Survey of Ireland.

BGS archives

Ref No	Title	Description
GSM/DC/A/C/7/484,500,508	H Leonard: Letter on his appointment.