Thomas Oldham
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| Date | Details |
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| 1816 | Born in Dublin. |
| Educated at private school in Dublin and Trinity College. Took B.A. degree. | |
| 1837-1838 | Studied engineering at Edinburgh, and geology and mineralogy under Jamieson. |
| 1839 | Returned to Ireland, became Geological Assistant to General Portlock R.E. (Geology Department, Ordnance Survey of Ireland) and assisted in survey of Derry and Tyrone. (Report 1843). |
| Became Curator and Assistant Secretary to Geological Society, Dublin, also Assistant Secretary to Institute of Civil Engineers of Ireland. | |
| 1844 | Appointed Assistant Professor of Engineering in Trinity College Dublin, under Professor J. MacNeill. |
| 1845 | Succeeded Professor Phillips to Chair of Geology at Dublin. |
| 1846 | Lecturer to Geological Society Dublin. Local Director of Survey for Ireland. |
| 1848 | President Geological Society Dublin. Elected F.R.S. |
| 1844-1849 | 12 papers to British Association and Dublin Geological Society Journal, all on Irish geology and palaeontology. |
| 1849 | Discovery of Oldhamia in Cambrian rocks of Wicklow Hills (named by E. Forbes). |
| 1850 | Resigned from Survey. |
| 1851 | Appointed Director of Geological Survey of India. |
| 1857 | Elected Member Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal (4 times President). |
| 1862-1864 | Memoir with J. Morris “Fossil Flora of Rajmahal Series”. |
| 1863 | Paper to Geological Society of London “On occurrence of rocks of Upper Cretaceous age in Eastern Bengal”. |
| 1867 | Report to Secretary of State for India : “On the coal resources of India”. |
| 16 memoirs on Coalfields of India. | |
| Presented report on geology of India at British Association in Dundee. | |
| 1875 | Gold Medal Royal Society. Also Gold Medal from Emperor of Austria. Member of following societies: “Imperial Academy “Isis” Society of Dresden”; Imperial Society of Nationalists, Moscow”; Royal Geological Society, Cornwall”; Geological Society of Edinburgh |
| 1876 | Retired. |
| 1878 | Died July 17th. |
Biographies and obituaries
Obituary - Thomas Oldham, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., Late Director of the Geological Survey of India. Born May, 1816, died 17th July 1878. Geologists Magazine. New Series. v. 5 p.382-384. 1878
Quarterly Journal Geological Society (1879) p. 46
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Oldham Thomas Oldham] — Wikipedia article
Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). Oldham, Thomas. Dictionary of National Biography. 42. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 111–112.
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Oldham, Thomas. Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
Patrick N. Wyse Jackson, 2005 Thomas Oldham (1816–1878). Earth Sciences 2000 Issue 12
Publications
Works listed in the BGS Library catalogue
Oldham, T. 1867. The coal resources and production of India. - Calcutta: Secretary of State for India
India. Geological Survey; Museum. Oldham, T. Museum of the Geological Survey of India. 1866. Catalogue of the meteorites in the Museum of the Geological Survey of India, Calcutta. - Calcutta: The Survey
Oldham, T. [Biographical information on Thomas Oldham] — Obituary files
BGS archives
| Ref No | Title | Description |
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| GSM/DC/A/C/3/133,188 | T. Oldham: Letter to H.T. De la Beche about the Geological Survey of Ireland. | |
| GSM/DC/A/C/3/206,209,270 | T. Oldham: Letters from H.T. De la Beche about the Geological Survey of Ireland. | |
| GSM/DC/A/C/3/226 | T. Oldham: Annual Reports by Oldham. | |
| GSM/DC/A/C/3/247,271,275 | T. Oldham: Letters from H.T. De la Beche making payments of money. |