William Whitaker
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| Date | Details |
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| 1836 | Born May 4th in London. Educated at St. Albans Grammar School and University College London. |
| 1855 | B.A. Hons. In Chemistry. |
| Engaged as assistant in Geological Museum. | |
| 1857 | Appointed to Geological Survey. |
| Worked with Hull, Polwhele and Bauerman in Oxfordshire and Berkshire, and the country near Brill, Buckinghamshire. | |
| Later with Bristow in Berkshire and N. Hants. | |
| 1859 | Elected F.G.S. |
| 1863 | Promoted to Geologist. |
| Took on original survey of London Basin. | |
| Also whole of Essex and Suffolk and parts of West Norfolk and Cambridge. | |
| 1882 | Appointed District Surveyor, stationed at Southampton. Surveyed parts of S. Hants. And superintended re-surveys in Bedford, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Northants, Oxford and Wiltshire. |
| Leading authority on water-supply and underground geology. | |
| 1885 | Associate Institution of Civil Engineers. A.I.C.E. |
| 1886 | Murchison Medal. |
| 1887 | Elected F.R.S. |
| 1896 | Retired. |
| 1898-1900 | President of Geological Society. |
| 1906 | Prestwich Medal. |
| 1923 | Wollaston Medal. |
| 1925 | Died January 15th. |
Biographies and obituaries
Evans, J.W. Obituary - William Whitaker, born in 1836, died 1925. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 81 p.lxi-lxii. 1925
Obituary - William Whitaker. Born in 1836, died 15th January 1925. Proceedings of the Geologists Association. v. 37 p.231-235. 1926
Geological Magazine (1907) p. 49
Strahan, A. Mr. W. Whitaker, F.R.S. Nature 115, 129–130 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115129a0
Geological Magazine (1925) p. 240
Proceedings Royal Society (1925) p. ix.
William Whitaker (geologist) — Wikipedia article
George, W. (2008, January 03). Whitaker, William (1836–1925), geologist. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 29 Aug. 2020, from https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-56929
George, William A. William Whitaker (1836–1925) — geologist, bibliographer and a pioneer of British hydrogeology. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 225, 51-65, 1 January 2004, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.225.01.05 Article of ResearchGate
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Whitaker (geologist) — PeoplePill entry
Noteworthy Naturalist William Whitaker (1836-1925) Pre-eminent Essex Geologist Essex Field Club
Publications
List of papers and geological Survey Publications see Geological Magazine (1907), pp. 52-58).
Memoirs:
Memoir Geological Survey vol. IV London Basin (1872)
London and parts Thames Valley, vols. I and II (1889)
Guide to Geology of London (1901)
Parts of Middlesex (1864)
Ipswich etc (1885)
East Essex (1877)
Southwold and Suffolk Coast (1887)
Halesworth and Harleston (1887)
Parts of Berks. and Hant. (1862) with Bristow
Parts of Oxford and Berks. (1861) with Hull
N.W. Essex (1878) with Penning, Dalton and Bennett
Stowmarket (1881) with Bennett and Blake
Cambridge and Suffolk (1891) with Woodward and Jukes-Browne
Borders of the Wash (1899) with Jukes-Browne
Bury St. Edmonds (1886) editors contribution
Aldborough (1886) editors contribution.
Water Supply Memoirs
Bucks and Herts (1921)
Cambridge, Hants. And Rutland (1922)
Essex (1916)Kent (1908)
Norfolk (1921)Suffolk (1906)
Surrey (1912)
Sussex (1899)
Sussex (supplement) (1911)
Berkshire (1902)
Lincolnshire (1904).
162 works listed in the BGS Library catalogue
BGS archives
| Ref No | Title | Description |
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| GSM/GL/Bw/29/244 | Eyre & Spottiswoode: Letter on Whitaker's memoir. | |
| GSM/GL/Cm/1 | Reports of work for years 1887, 1894, 1896 and 1899 with notes and memoranda by W.Whitaker, 1889 and 1895 | |
| GSM/GL/Cm/3 | Correspondence: letters to Mr Brown, Jukes-Browne, Rudler (about Fullers Earth), W.Topley, W.W.Watts, W.Whitaker(about the Bedford area) and H.B.Woodward. | |
| GSM/GL/Jb/3 | Correspondence with other geologists. Including: H.A.Allen, F.H.Hatch, F.L.Kitchin, G.W.Lamplugh, F.W.Rudler, Teall, W.W.Wattts, W.Whitaker and H.B.Woodward. Some letters to Jukes-Browne. | |
| GSM/GL/Rd | Clement Reid | Clement Reid joined the Survey in 1874. He was the author of 'The Pliocene Deposits of Britain' in 1890, the first of the great Stratigraphical Memoirs planned by A.Geikie. Reid also produced a work on Cromer...? He was joint author (with W.Whitaker ) of 'The Water Supply of Sussex from Underground Sources' and a District Memoir on the Isle of Wight in 1889. |
| GSM/GL/Tp/3 | Notes on the geology of the Weald: rough notes by W.Topley, F.Drew, C.Gould, W.Whitaker and others with a volume of notes by C le N.Foster. | |
| GSM/GL/Us/2 | Correspondence with other geologists inc. J.S.Flett, F.H.Hatch, Teall, W.Whitaker and H.B.Woodward. Some letters to Ussher. | |
| GSM/GL/Wh | William Whitaker | Clement Reid joined the Survey in 1874. He was the author of 'The Pliocene Deposits of Britain' in 1890, the first of the great Stratigraphical Memoirs planned by A.Geikie. Reid also produced a work on Cromer...? He was joint author (with W.Whitaker ) of 'The Water Supply of Sussex from Underground Sources' and a District Memoir on the Isle of Wight in 1889. |
| GSM/GL/Wh/3 | Notes on the geology of the country around Chatham and Faversham for one inch sheets 272 and 273 by T.McK Hughes and W.Whitaker. |