Thomas Roxburgh Polwhele J.P., D.L., M.A., F.G.S.
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| Date | Details |
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| 1831 | Born. |
| Graduated at Cambridge. | |
| 1858 | Joined Geological Survey under Murchison. |
| Engaged in mapping parts of Oxford and Bucks.; drew boundary lines (proved substantially correct) for clayey equivalents of Corallian rocks between Wheatley and Quaiton. | |
| Also surveyed areas of the Bagshot Series and other formations on borders of Hants. And Surrey. Notes published in Memoirs by Whitaker and A.H. Green. Succeeded to estate at Polwhele, near Truro. | |
| 1863 | Retired. |
| 1896-1897 | President of the Geological Society, Cornwall. Addresses: “The relation of other sciences to geology” and “The physical geology of the Earth”. |
| 1909 | Died September 2nd in Cornwall. |
Biographies and obituaries
Obituary - Thomas Roxburgh Polwhele, J.P., D.L., M.A., F.G.S. (1831-2.9.1909). Geologists Magazine. New Series. v. 6 p.576. 1909
Watts, W.W. Obituary - Thomas Roxburgh Polwhele, M.A. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 67 p.liii-liv. 1911
Publications
Geological Survey of England and Wales. Bristow, H.W. Whittaker, W. Polwhele, T.R. Trench, R. Dawkins, W.B. Penning, W.H. Woodward, H.B. Bennett, F.J. Ussher, W.A.E. Blake, J.H. Hawkins, C.E. August 1873. London and it's environs 1:63 360 [drift]: Drift ed. - London: Geological Survey of England and Wales
Geological Survey of England and Wales. Bristow, H.W. Whittaker, W. Polwhele, T.R. Trench, R. Dawkins, W.B. Penning, W.H. Woodward, H.B. Bennett, F.J. Ussher, W.A.E. Blake, J.H. Hawkins, C.E. August 1873. London and it's environs 1:63 360 [solid]: Solid ed. - London: Geological Survey of England and Wales
BGS archives
| Ref No | Title | Description |
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| GSM/DC/A/C/6/429 | T R Polwhele: Minute of appointment. |