William Boyd Dawkins

William Boyd Dawkins. P575812

Timeline

Date	Details
1837	Born December 26th at Buttington, Welshpool. Son of Rev. R. Dawkins. Educated at Rossall and Jesus College, Oxford. Took 2nd class in Classical and a 1st in Natural Science and was first holder of Burdett-Coutts Scholarship.
1862	Joined Geological Survey 30th June. Mapping in Kent and Thames Valley.
1866	Began publication of Monograph on “British Pleistocene Mammalia” (Pal. Soc.)
1867	Elected F.R.S.
1869	Resigned from Survey. Appointed Curator, Natural History Department, Manchester University and Lecturer in Geology at Owen’s College (Professor 1872. Resigned 1909).
1874	“Cave-hunting”.
1880	“Early man in Britain”.
1882	President Anthropological Section, British Association.
1888	President Geological Section, British Association.
1889	Lyell Medal.
1900	D.Sc. from Oxford.
1918	Prestwich Medal
1919	Knighted.
1929	Died January 15th at Bowden, Cheshire.
	Did much work in connection with Channel Tunnel and Kent Coalfield and geological problems of all kinds. Late in life returned to study of Pleistocene and Prehistoric animals.
	On retirement elected Hon. Professor of Manchester University and received Hon. D.Sc.

Biographies and obituaries

Obituary - Sir William Boyd Dawkins (26.12.1837-1929). Geologists Magazine. Whole Series. v. 66 p.142. 1929

Gregory, J.W. Obituary - William Boyd Dawkins, born 1837, died 1928. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 85 p.lix-lx. 1929

Nature (Feb. 22nd 1929) p. 284.

Geological Magazine (1909) p. 529.

Publications

List of publications: Geological Magazine (1909) pp 531-534.

BGS archives

Ref No	Title	Description
GSM/DC/A/C/7/211-213,216	W B Dawkins: Minutes on his appointment.
GSM/DC/A/C/8/117	W B Dawkins: Letter on his resignation.
GSM/GL/Da	B Dawkins