Pioneers of the British Geological Survey
This resource provides brief biographical information for the members of staff who served in the organisation during the first hundred years of its existence.
To mark the centenary of the formation of the Geological Survey, Sir John Flett, Director of the Survey in 1935, wrote 'The First Hundred years of the Geological Survey of Great Britain'. Published by HMSO in 1937, this work became one of the key texts for anyone carrying out research into the development of the Survey. One section, Appendix 2, provides an invaluable reference list of those who served on the staff of the Survey between 1835 and 1935. The Prefatory Note in Flett's work acknowledges the contribution of Miss E M Guppy in the compilation of the staff list. Library notes provide greater detail
While the list as it appears in the published work provides only brief biographical details for each individual member of staff, the BGS Library Archives include the full MSS notes (GSM1/718) made by Miss Guppy. These notes contain a much fuller entry for each person and give a fascinating insight into the careers of many of the geologists involved, forming the core of this resource.
What's in the Pioneers section?
The Pioneers of the British Geological Survey resource includes:
All names listed in Appendix II of Sir John Flett's history. This includes all staff who were in the Survey before 1900. After 1900 it includes only the scientific staff and not the technical assistants, general assistants, draughtsmen, warders, cleaners, messengers etc.
Information for each member of staff, derived from the extended notes compiled by Miss Guppy with additional amendments and updated information, e.g. obituaries, biographies, photographs and sample signatures. This updating will continue.
In future, it is hoped to extend this resource to include Survey staff up to 1965 when the Survey became the Institute of Geological Sciences, an organisation with a much wider remit than the former Geological Survey.
Bibliography
Flett, J S. 1937. The First Hundred Years of the Geological Survey. (London: HMSO.)
Guppy, E M. 1935. Geological Survey Staff. [Unpublished manuscript.]
Guppy, E M. 2000. BGS Archives GSM1/718, Biographical notes on Geological Survey staff: A transcription of the original archive notes. Selected Documents from the BGS Archives No. 2. British Geological Survey Technical Report WO/00/04. http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/524542/
Alphabetical list
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A
B
Bromehead, Cyril Edward Nowill
C
Cunningham-Craig, Edward Hubert
D
Dakyns, John Roche
Dalton, William Herbert
Davidson, Charles Findlay
Davies, William
Dawkins, William Boyd
De la Beche, Henry Thomas
De Rance, Charles Eugene
Dewey, Henry
Dick, Allan B.
Dines, Henry George
Dinham, Charles Hawker
Dix, Matthew
Dixon, Ernest Edward Leslie
Drew, Frederick
Du Noyer, George Victor
Duffin, W. L’Estrange
Dunham, Kingsley Charles
E
Eastwood, Tom
Edmunds, Francis Hereward
Edwards, Wilfrid Norman
Egan, Frederick William
Elliott, Eustace George William
Etheridge, Robert
Evans, Ralph du Boulay
Eyles, Victor Ambrose
F
Flanagan, James
Flett, John Smith
Foot, Frederick James
Forbes, Edward
Forbes, James Grellier
Foster, Clement Le Neve
Fowler, Alexander
Fox-Strangways, Charles Edward
Frankland, Edward
G
Galvan, Charles
Gapper, J.C.
Garraway, Francis
Geikie, Archibald
Geikie, James
George, Thomas Neville
Gibson, Walcot
Goodchild, John George
Gould, Charles
Grabham, George Walter
Gray, Henry James
Greenly, Edward
Gunn, William
H
Hallett, G.
Hallimond, Arthur Francis
Haragan, J.
Hardman, Edward Townley
Harker, Alfred
Hatch, Frederick Henry
Hawkins, Charles Edward
Hay, John
Hebert, E.J.
Henfrey, Arthur Henfrey
Henfrey, George
Hill, John Bastian
Hinxman, Lionel Wordsworth
Hockman, William Rolls
Hofmann, Augustus Wilhelm
Hollingworth, Sydney Ewart
Holloway, W.B.
Holloway, W.H.
Holmes, Stanley Charles Arthur
Holmes, Thomas Vincent
Hooker, Joseph Dalton
Horne, John
Hoskins, Pierce Hoskins
Howe, John Allan
Howell, Henry Hyett
Hughes, Thomas McKenny
Hull, Edward
Hunt, Robert
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Hyland, John Shearson
I
Ibbetson, Levett Landon Boscawen
Irvine, Duncan Robertson
J
Jack, Robert Logan
James, Henry
James, Trevor Evans
Johnstone, Thomas Archibald
Jones, Owen Thomas
Jones, Robert Cyril Briscoe
Jordan, James B.
Jordan, Thomas B.
Judd, John Wesley
Jukes, Joseph Beete
Jukes-Browne, Alfred John
K
Kelly, John
Kennedy, John
Kennedy, William Quarrier
Kilroe, James Robinson
Kinahan, George Henry
King, William Bernard Robinson
Kitchin, Finlay Lorimer
Knox, John
Kynaston, Herbert
L
Lamplugh, George William
Lebour, George Alexander Louis
Lee, Gabriel Wharton
Leeson, E.
Leonard, Hugh
Leonard, William Benjamin
Lewis, Edward
Lightfoot, Ben
Lightfoot, G. Herbert
Linn, James
Lloyd, Wilfred
Logan, William Edmond
Lucas, Joseph
Lunn, Robert
M
MacAlister, Donald Alexander
Macconochie, Arthur Francis
Macconochie, Arthur I.
Macgregor, Murray
Maden, James
Marsden, Frank
Maufe, Herbert Brantwood
McCoy, Frederick
McHenry, Alexander
McLintock, William Francis Porter
McVey, Henry Stobie
Meade, Richard
Medlicott, Henry Benedict
Medlicott, Joseph G.
Medlicott, Samuel
Miller, Hugh
Mitchell, George Hoole
Mitchell, William Fancourt
Mooney, Dennis
Morgan, Stephen William
Mourant, Arthur Ernest
Muir, John Malcolm
Murchison, R.M.
Murchison, Roderick Impey
Murray, Alexander
N
Newton, Edwin Tulley
Newton, Richard Bullen
Newton, T.W.
Noble, Arthur Henry
Nolan, Joseph
O
O’Kelly, Joseph
Oakley, Kenneth Page
O'Connor, Patrick Michael
Oldham, Thomas
P
Penning, William Henry
Penny, J.
Percy, John
Phemister, James
Phillips, John
Phillips, Richard
Playfair, Lyon
Pocock, Roy Woodhouse
Pocock, Theodore Innes
Pollard, William
Polwhele, Thomas Roxburgh
Pond, Samuel
Pringle, Alexander
Pringle, John
Pugh, T.J.G.
R
Ramsay, Andrew Crombie
Read, Herbert Harold
Reeks, Trenham
Rees, Josiah
Reid, Clement
Rhind, J.
Rhind, W.
Rhodes, John
Richey, James Ernest
Robbie, James Andrew
Robertson, Thomas
Rose, William Colin Campbell
Ross, George
Rudler, Frederick William
Russell, Robert
Rutley, Frank
S
Salter, John William
Salter, Peter John
Scrivenor, John Brooke
Selwyn, Alfred Richard
Seymour, Henry Joseph
Sharman, George
Shelswell, John
Sherlock, Robert Lionel
Simmons, William Charles
Simpson, John Baird
Skae, Harriman Malcolm
Skertchly, Sydney Barber Josiah
Smith, Bernard
Smyth, Warington Wilkinson
Sollas, William Johnson
Stephens, John Victor
Stokes, G.G.
Stokes, R.S.
Strahan, Aubrey
Stubblefield, Cyril James
Symes, Richard Glascott
T
Taylor, James Haward
Teall, Jethro Justinian Harris
Thomas, Herbert Henry
Thomas, Ivor
Tiddeman, Richard Hill
Tonks, Laurance Henry
Tookey, Charles
Topley, William
Traill, William A.
Trench, Richard
Trimmer, Edward J.A.
Trimmer, Joshua
Trotter, Frederick Murray
Tyndall, John
U
Ussher, William Augustus Edmond
W
Walters, Hugh
Ward, James
Warren, James Lillie
Watts, William Whitehead
Welch, Francis Brian Awburn
Whitaker, William
Whitehead, Talbot Haes
Wild, H.
Wilkinson, Sydney Berdoe Neal
William, William Rudler
Williams, Horace Walter Gilbert
Willis, Robert
Wills, Leonard Johnston
Willson, Walter Lindsay
Wilson, George Victor
Wilson, James Simpson Grant
Wollaston, G. Hyde
Woodward, Horace Bolingbroke
Wray, Disney Alexander
Wright, William Bourke
Wyley, Andrew
Wynne, Alfred H.
Wynne, Arthur Beavor
Y
Young, John