John Roche Dakyns M.A.
|
Images
-
-
-
-
-
Sitting in front J. Dakyns -
Includes H. Miller, L.W. Hinxman, B.N. Peach, J. Horne and J. Dakyns.
Timeline
| Date | Details |
|---|---|
| 1836 | Born January 31st in St. Vincent, West Indies, son of Dr. Th. Dakyns. |
| 1845 | Moved to Rugby and received early education there. |
| 1855 | Entered Trinity College, Cambridge. |
| 1859 | 27th Wrangler in Maths Tripos. Teaching for 2 years. |
| 1862 | Joined Geological Survey as Assistant Geologist 16th January. |
| 1868 | Promoted to Geologist. Field work chiefly in West Riding of Yorkshire and bordering tracts of Derbyshire, Lancashire and Westmoreland. |
| 1884 | Transferred to Scotland on completion of 1inch mapping of England and Wales. Engaged for 10 years in mapping parts of the Forest of Atholl, to borders of Argyll and Loch Lomond district. |
| 1892 | Paper with Teall to Geological Society. “On the plutonic rocks of Garabal Hill”. |
| 1894 | Transferred to South Wales for 6 inch re-survey of coalfield. |
| 1896 | Retired. Remapped part of Snowdon area on 6 inch scale. |
| 1910 | Died September 27th. |
Biographies and obituaries
Details Watts, W.W. Obituary - John Roche Dakyns, born 1836, died 1910. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 67 p.lix-lx. 1911
Lamplugh, G.W. Obituary - John Roche Dakyns, M.A. (1836-1910). Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society. v. 17 p.159-162. 1910
Obituary - John Roche Dakyns, M.A. Born 31st January 1836, died 27th September 1910. Geologists Magazine. New Series. v. 7 p.575. 1910
Publications
| Date | Details |
|---|---|
| 1869 | Part author of Memoir: North Derbyshire (1869) |
| 1869 | Part author of Memoir: Yorkshire Coalfield (1869 and 1978). |
| 1870 | Part author of Memoir: Leeds and Tadcaster (1870) |
| 1871 | Part author of Memoir: Dewsbury, Huddersfield and Halifax (1871) |
| 1875 | Part author of Memoir: Burnley Coalfield (1875) |
| 1879 | Part author of Memoir: Bradford and Skipton (1879) |
| 1885 | Part author of Memoir: Bridlington Bay (1885) |
| 1886 | Part author of Memoir: York and Hull (1886) |
| 1886 | Part author of Memoir: Driffield (1886) |
| 1888 | Part author of Memoir: Kendal and Sedbergh (2nd edition 1888) |
| 1888 | Part author of Memoir: Ingleborough (1888) |
| 1891 | Part author of Memoir: Mallerstang (1891) |
| 1897 | Part author of Memoir: Appleby (1897) |
| 1900 | South Wales Coalfield, Part II Abergavenny (1900) |
BGS archives
| Ref No | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| GSM/DC/A/C/7/180-181,199 | J R Dakyns: Minutes on his appointment. | |
| GSM/DC/A/C/24/225,231 | J R Dakyns: Letter on his appointments to Survey. | |
| GSM/GL/Bw/29/54 | J R Dakyns: Letter on a change of station. | |
| GSM/GL/Cm/2 | Explanation of Sheet 203 new series with geology around Bedford, with additional notes by A.H... | |
| GSM/GL/Dk | John Roche Dakyns | Notable for pioneer mapping of Snowdonia. |
John Roache Daykns 1836-1910
Extract with permission of the author from: Cooper A.H. Yorkshire geology as seen through the eyes of notable British Geological Survey geologists 1862-200046-67 in Myerscough, R and Wallace, V. Famous Geologists of Yorkshire. York. ISBN 978-1-906604-58-5. PDF on NORA
Daykns was educated at Rugby school and studied at Trinity College Cambridge (1855-1859) joining the Geological Survey in 1862 as an assistant geologist . His early work was in Yorkshire as part of a team with Green and Ward surveying the Yorkshire coalfield. This and subsequent work took him through large areas of Yorkshire including Leeds, Tadcaster, Dewsbury, Huddersfield, Halifax, Bradford, Skipton, Bridlington, Driffield, York, Hull, Holderness, The Wolds and Ingleborough. He then moved on to Cumbria and Scotland. Along with Green his input into the understanding of the coal sequences of Yorkshire was considerable. With co-workers including Fox-Strangways, Cameron and Ward he helped the understanding of the Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous and Quaternary of Yorkshire (Table 1).