Thomas McKenny Hughes M.A., F.R.S.
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| Date | Details |
|---|---|
| 1832 | Born at Aberystwyth. Son of Bishop of St. Asaph, brother of Bishop of Llandaff, grandson of Sir Thomas McKenny, Bart. Educated at Leamington and Llandovery Colleges and Trinity College, Cambridge (1853-7). Associate of Ray Club, and attended Sedgwicks’ le |
| 1860 | Appointed Secretary to C.T. Newton, Consul in Rome. |
| 1861 | Acting Consul in Rome. |
| Invitation from Murchison to join Geological Survey. Appointed Assistant Geologist. Work, mapping of chalk and limestone, Eocene in the Medway Valley and near Faversham and Sittingbourne. Results published in Whitaker’s Memoir on London Basin (1872). | |
| 1862 | Elected F.G.S. |
| 1865-1866 | Work near Hertford and St. Albans. Described drift-gravels of “Lower Plain” and “Higher Plain” |
| 1866 | Transferred to Lake District (Aveline and Sedgwick). |
| 1867 | Published views in Silurian supporting Sedgwick’s (Geol. Magazine). |
| Results of field work in memoirs on “Kirkby Lonsdale and Kendal”(with Aveline and Tiddeman)(1872) and “Kendal, Sedbergh, Bowness and Tebay” (with Aveline)(1872). | |
| M.A. degree. | |
| Promoted to Geologist. | |
| 1873 | Elected to Chair of Geology at Cambridge on death of Sedgwick. |
| 1875 | Elected President of Chester Society of Natural Science. |
| Also President of Kendal Literary and Scientific Society. | |
| Continued field work chiefly in Wales. | |
| 1889 | Elected F.R.S. |
| 1890 | “Life and Letters of Sedgwick” 2 volumes. (Clark and Hughes) |
| 1891 | Lyell Medal. |
| 1904 | Sedgwick Mueum opened. |
| 1917 | Died June 9th. |
Biographies and obituaries
Obituary - Thomas McKenny Hughes. Born in 1832, died 9th June 1917. Proceedings of the Geologists Association. v. 29 p.108-108. 1918
Obituary - Thomas McKenny Hughes, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge; Professorial Fellow of Clare College, Woodwardian Professor of Geology; F.R.S., F.S.A., F.G.S., Chev.Ord.SS.Maur. Et Lazar.Ital; Corr.Memb.Soc.Geol.Belg.Soc.France, Germany, Italy, etc. G
Obituary - Thomas McKenny Hughes (1832-1917). Mineralogical Magazine. v. 18 p.396. 1919
Harker, A. Obituary - Thomas McKenny Hughes. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 74 p.lii-liv. 1918
Geology of Yorkshire, Kendall and Wroot p. 3
Geological Magazine (1906) p. 1
Thomas McKenny Hughes — Wikipedia article
Hughes, Thomas McKenny 1832 - 1917), geologist Dictionary of Welsh Biography
Marr, J. Prof. T. Mckenny Hughes, F.R.S. Nature 99, 326–327 (1917).
Publications
List of papers : Geological Magazine (1906) p.10-13
BGS archives
Other archives
The Papers of Professor Thomas McKenny Hughes Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Thomas McKenny Hughes: Personal and family papers Cambridge University Library