James Ward

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Date	Details
1854	Born.
1870	Appointed Fossil Collector.
1880	Resigned.
1843	Born.
1861	Entered Royal School of Mines as a student.
1864	Gained Edward Forbes Medal.
1865	Joined Geological Survey. Sent to Yorkshire, worked on Millstone Grit and Lower Coal Measures (paper to Geological Society 1869).
1869	Transferred to Keswick. Memoir: “Lake District” (1876); Papers: “Lake basins of Cumberland” (Q.J. 1874); “Glaciation of south part of Lake District (Q.J. 1875).
1875-1876	Engaged in microscopical examination of Lake District rocks. Papers: “Granitic, granitoid and metamorphic rocks of the Lake District” (Q.J. 1875,1876); “Comparative microscopic rock structure of Ancient and Modern volcanic rocks” (Q.J. 1875). Founded the
1877	Left Lake District for Lower Carboniferous of Bewcastle.
1878	Entered the Church. Licensed to curacy of St. John’s, Keswick.
1880	Appointed to Vicarage of Rydal.
1880	Died.

Biographies and obituaries

Etheridge, R. Obituary - Rev. James Clifton Ward. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 37 p.41-43. 1881

Obituary - Rev. James Clifton Ward, F.G.S. (1843-1880). Geologists Magazine. New Series. v. 7 p.334-336. 1880

James Clifton Ward — Wikipedia article

Publications

Memoirs: Lake District , north part of (1876); Leeds and Tadcaster (1870) with Aveline, Green, Dakyns, Russell.; Dewsbury (1871) with Green, Dakyns, Russell.; Appleby (1897) (petrological notes); Yorkshire Coalfield (1869) with Green and Dakyn.

Works listed in the BGS Library catalogue

Survey publications

Green, A.H. ; Dakyns, J.R. ; Ward, J.C. ; Geological Survey of Great Britain (1869). The geology of part of the Yorkshire coal field (...Quarter-sheet 88SE...). (Memoir (Sheet) Geological Survey of Great Britain (England & Wales) - Old Series). London : HMSO.

Hull, E. ; Dakyns, J.R. ; Tiddeman, R.H. ; Ward, J.C. ; De Rance, C.E. ; Gunn, W. ; Geological Survey of Great Britain (1875). The geology of the Burnley Coalfield and of the country around Clitheroe, Blackburn, Preston, Chorley, Hashingden and Todmorde : (Quarter sheets 88NW,89NE,89NW and 92SW of the 1-inch geological maps. (Coalfield Mem Geol Surv Eng Wales). London : HMSO.

Aveline, W.T. ; Green, A.H. ; Dakyns, J.R. ; Ward, J.C. ; Russell, R. ; Geological Survey of Great Britain (1870). The geology of the Carboniferous rocks north and east of Leeds, and the Permian and Triassic rocks about Tadcaster (...quarter-sheet 93SW...). (Memoir (Sheet) Geological Survey of Great Britain (England & Wales) - Old Series). London : HMSO.

Dakyns, J.R. ; Tiddeman, R.H. ; Goodchild, J.G. ; Ward, J.C. ; Watts, W.W. ; Geological Survey of Great Britain (1897). The geology of the country between Appleby, Ullswater, and Haweswater (...Quarter-sheet 102SW). (Memoir (Sheet) Geological Survey of Great Britain (England & Wales) - Old Series). London : HMSO.

Green, A.H. ; Dakyns, J.R. ; Ward, J.C. ; Russell, R. ; Geological Survey of Great Britain (1871). The geology of the neighbourhood of Dewsbury, Huddersfield, and Halifax (...Quarter sheet 88NE...). (Memoir (Sheet) Geological Survey of Great Britain (England & Wales) - Old Series). London : HMSO.

Ward, J.C. (1876). The geology of the northern part of the English Lake District - quarter sheet 101SE (including sheets 63,64,69,70,71,76 + portions of 54,55,56,57,62,65,68,73,74,75 Cumberland and 12,18,19 Westmoreland. (Memoir (District) Geological Survey of GB). London : HMSO.

Green, A.H. ; Russell, R. ; Dakyns, J.R. ; Ward, J.C. ; Fox-Strangways, C.E. ; Dalton, W.H. ; Holmes, T.V. ; Geological Survey of Great Britain (1878). The geology of the Yorkshire Coalfield. (Coalfield Mem Geol Surv Eng Wales). London : HMSO.

External publications

Robinson, E. ; Dakyns, J.R. ; Ward, J.C. ; Green, A.H. And did those feet, in ancient times? : Amateur Geologist XIII(2)p22-26.

Ward, J.C. (1872). Elementary geology : a course of nine lectures specially adapted for the use of schools and junior students. (1872).

Freire-Marreco, A. ; Hill, A. ; Moffitt, R. ; Jervis, W.P. ; Galloway, W. ; De Rance, C.E. ; Ward, J.C. ; Burder, G.F. ; Gardiner, E.J.L. ; Fryer, A.C. ; MacCulloch, J. ; Woodward, H.B. ; Davy, J. ; Schneider, H.W. ; Durden, E.H. ; Thorp, W. ; Sorby, H.C. ; Watson, J. ; Hunt, R. ; Wright, T. ; Sopwith, T. ; Richardson, T. ; Daglish, J. ; Forster, G.B. ; Bell, I.L. ; Spencer, T. ; Robinson, H. ; Curry, J. ; Maw, G. ; Brigg, J. ; Gulland, J.K. ; Kendall, J.D. ; Aitken, J. ; Collins, J.H. ; Barrow, G. ; Topley, W. ; Dakyns, J.R. ; Andre, G.G. ; Foster, C.L.N. ; Halse, E. ; Holmes, T.V. ; Ashburner, C.A. ; Browett, A. ; Hull, E. ; Brierley, J. ; Wallis, A.M. ; Bedson, P.P. ; Shaw, J.L. ; Fream, W. ; Topley, W. (1855-1894). England and Wales : economic. (Survey pamphlet; 17).

Ward, J.C. Notes on the geology of the Isle of Man : Geological Magazine decade II, vol.VII, no.I 1880 p.1-9.

Ward, J.C. (1875). On the granitic, granitoid, and associated metamorphic rocks of the Lake-District. Parts I & II. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society (1875) p. 568-602 (1875) ; p. 568-602.

Ward, J.C. (1876). On the granitic, granitoid, and associated metamorphic rocks of the Lake-District. Parts III-V. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society (1876) p. 1-34 (1876) ; p. 1-34.

Ward, J.C. Rambles among the modern volcanoes of Italy. Hardwicke's Science Gossip 1873 p201-2.

Ward, J.C. Rambles among the modern volcanoes of Italy no.2. Hardwicke's Science-Gossip 1873 p217-221.

Ward, J.C. ; Topley, W. (1875-1879). Rock structure. XII. [S.l.] : [s.n.].

Ward, J.C. Scenery of the Lake District geologically considered. Hardwicke's Science-Gossip 1873 p121-128.

BGS archives

Ref No	Title	Description
GSM/GL/Wd	J.C.Ward	Ward joined the Survey in 1865.
GSM/MG/P/4/89	Letters to F.W. Rudler about analysis of nickel minerals.