Henry Benedict Medlicott M.A., F.R.S.

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Date	Details
1829	Born August 3rd at Loughrea, County Galway, son of Rev. S. Medlicott, educated at Trinity College, Dublin.
1851	Appointed to Geological Survey in Ireland.
1853	Transferred to the English branch. Worked with Aveline in the Vale of Pewsey and other parts of Wiltshire.
1854	Appointed to Indian Geological Survey (commenced duties 1854).
1854	Chosen Professor of Geology at the Thomason College of Engineering at Roorkee.
1876	Became Superintendent (and afterwards Director) of Geological Survey of India.
1877	Elected F.R.S.
1887	Retired.
1888	Wollaston Medal.
1905	Died April 6th at Clifton, Bristol.

Biographies and obituaries

Proceedings Royal Society. B. LXXIX (1907) p. xix.

Memoir on Indian Surveys C.R. Markham (1878) pp. 225,etc.

Henry Benedict Medlicott — Wikipedia article

Medlicott, Henry Benedict. Who's Who. Vol. 57. 1905. p. 1102.

Blanford, W. T (1907). Obituary Notices of Fellows Deceased. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Containing Papers of a Biological Character. 79 (535): i-xxxvii+xxxviii-lxiii.

Grout, A (2004). Medlicott, Henry Benedict (1829–1905). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/34972

Medlicott, Henry Benedict.) Dictionary of Indian Biography.djvu/300

Publications

Works listed in the BGS Library catalogue

Medlicott, H.B. ; Geological Survey of India ; Indian and Colonial Exhibition (1886). Descriptive list of exhibits for the colonial and Indian Exhibition, London, 1886. Calcutta : Superintendent of Government Printing.

Medlicott, H.B. ; Oldham, R. D. ; Pascoe, E. H. ; Geological Survey of India ; Dunham, K.C. (1962). A manual of the geology of India and Burma. Vol. III. 3rd ed., rev. and largely rewritten / by Sir Edwin H. Pascoe. Calcutta : Government of India Press.

Medlicott, H.B. ; Blanford, W.T. ; Ball, V. ; Mallet, F.R. ; Oldham, R. D. ; Pascoe, E. H. (1950). A manual of the geology of India and Burma. Volume I. Calcutta : Government of India Press.

Medlicott, H.B. ; Blanford, W.T. ; Ball, V. ; Mallet, F.R. ; Oldham, R. D. ; Pascoe, E. H. ; Dunham, K.C. (1968). A manual of the geology of India and Burma. Volume II. Calcutta : Government of India Press.

Medlicott, H.B. ; Blanford, W.T. (1879). A manual of the geology of India. Part I, Peninsular Area. Calcutta : Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India.

Medlicott, H.B. ; Blanford, W.T. (1879). A manual of the geology of India. Part II, Extra-Peninsular Area. Calcutta : Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India.

Medlicott, H.B. (1888). Sketch of the geology of the Punjab. Calcutta : Calcutta Central Press.

BGS archives

Ref No	Title	Description	GSM/DC/A/C/4/319	H B Medlicott: Letters on his appointment.
GSM/DC/A/C/6/89	H B Medlicott: Letters on transfer to England.
GSM/DC/A/C/6/104,126,146	H B Medlicott: Letter on transfer to India.