George William Lamplugh F.R.S.

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Timeline

Date	Details
1859	Born April 8th at Driffield, East Yorkshire. Later lived at Bridlington. Worked in merchant’s office. Attracted to study of Boulder Clay series (series of papers in Geological Magazine, 1878 onwards).
1879	Paper to Yorkshire Geological Society “On Glacial Beds in Filey Bay”.
1880	Jubilee British Association meeting at York. Lamplugh contributed paper “On the Bridlington and Dimlington Glacial shell-beds”.
1884	First paper to Geological Society on recent exposure of boulder clay at Bridlington. Travelled in North America, studied drift deposits.
	Continued investigations of Yorkshire coast (Speeton Clay).
1889	Important paper on results to Geological Society.
1891	Lyell Fund from Geological Society.
1892	Joint paper with Russian geologist A.P. Pavlow on “Speeton Clay and its equivalents” (Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscow (1892)).
	Joined Geological Survey as Assistant Geologist. Sent to survey the Isle of Man, 5 years work, resulting in papers to Quarterly Journal Geological Society and in Survey Memoir “Isle of Man”.
1893	Leave of absence for visit to Arizona and Pacific coast of America.
1897	Secretary of Geological Section, British Association in Toronto. Published account of excursion to Vancouver Island (“Nature”).
1898	Moved to Tonbridge to assist in mapping of the Weald (in conjunction with borings for coal in Kent).
1901	Bigsby Medal from Geological Society.
	Made District Geologist. Sent to Dublin in charge of Irish branch of the Survey (continued there till transference of Survey to Irish Department under Grenville A.J. Cole 1905).
	Took part in mapping country round Dublin, Belfast, Cork and Limerick – 4 memoirs.
1905	Elected F.R.S.
	Undertook examination of Zambesi Gorge below Victoria Falls (under auspices of British Association). Results in paper to British Association at Johannesburg.
1906	Elected President Geological Section , British Association in York. Address on “Interglacial Problems”.
	On return from Ireland took charge of survey of Midland District (Notts. Etc.), memoirs (see Geological Magazine (1918) p. 346. Subsequently worked in North Wales, Later in Wealden area, records of boreholes.
1910	Attended International Geological Congress at Stockholm. Contributed account of expedition to Spitzbergen to “Nature” and description of shelly moraine to Yorkshire Geological Society (1911).
1911	M.G.S. with Dr. Kitchin on Kent Mesozoic rocks
1914	Appointed Assistant to Director. Attended British Association in Australia.
1914-1916	Served on Council of Royal Society.
1918-1920	President Geological Society. Addresses “The structure of the Weald” and “The Glaciation of England”.
1920	Retired from Survey.
1925	Wollaston Medal.
1926	Died October 9th at St. Albans.
	Past President of the Yorkshire Naturalists Union, The Hull Geological Society and the Hertfordshire Natural History Society. Hon. Member of several other Societies.

Biographies and obituaries

Obituary - Geirge William Lamplugh. Born 8th April 1859, died 9th October 1926. Proceedings of the Geologists Association. v. 38 p.243-245. 1927

Obituary - George William Lamplugh, F.R.S., F.G.S., F.R.G.S. Born 8th April 1859, died 9th October 1926. Geologists Magazine. Whole Series. v. 64 p.91-92. 1927

In Memoriam: George William Lamplugh, Godfrey Bingley, Arnold Lupton, William Horne, H. C. Embleton, Frank Petch, George E. Stringer, Peter Booth Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 21, 342-346, 1 January 1930, https://doi.org/10.1144/pygs.21.4.342

Bather, F.A. Obituary - George William Lamplugh. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 83 p.lvi-lvii. 1927

Strahan, A. Mr. G. W. Lamplugh, F.R.S. Nature (October 30th 1926) p. 341

Times (October 14th 1926)

George William Lamplugh — Wikipedia article Rowe, David. George Lamplugh. George William Lamplugh, FRS (1859-1926) Geologist and Geographer Yorkshire Philosophical Society Yorkshire Scientists and Innovators

A. S. Obituary: George William Lamplugh, F. R. S. The Geographical Journal Vol. 68, No. 6 (Dec., 1926), pp. 529-531 JSTOR

Penny, L.F. George William Lamplugh International Glaciological Society

George William Lamplugh (1859-1926), Geologist — National Portrait Gallery

George William Lamplugh geologist president — Prabook entry

Publications

91 works listed in the BGS Library catalogue

List of papers and Memoirs: Geological Magazine (1918) pp. 343-346.

Special Reports XII Iron Ores (1920)

Memoir: Flint (1924)

Concealed Mesozoic rocks in Kent (1923).

BGS archives

Ref No	Title	Description
GSM/GL/Jb/3	Correspondence with other geologists. Including: H.A.Allen, F.H.Hatch, F.L.Kitchin, G.W.Lamplugh...
GSM/MG/C/8	Manx Museum: transfer of geological specimens collected by G.W.Lamplugh