Alfred Richard Selwyn
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| Date | Details |
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| 1824 | Born July 28th at Kilmington, Somerset. Son of Rev. Canon Townsend Selwyn and grandson of Bishop of St. Davids. Married daughter of Rev. Edward Selwyn. Educated in Switzerland. |
| 1845 | Joined Geological Survey under De la Beche. |
| Mapping in North Wales under Ramsay. | |
| First discovered unconformity between Cambrian and underlying schists. | |
| Also worked in Shropshire. | |
| 1852 | Resigned. Appointed Director of Geological Survey, Victoria. |
| Undertook investigation of gold-bearing rocks and gravels. | |
| Prepared reports and papers on economic geology of Victoria. | |
| 1869 | Appointed Director to Geological Survey of Canada (on Logan’s retirement). Advanced Canadian geology from economic side. |
| Worked out geologic structure of eruptive districts of east Canada. | |
| Also assistant to Canadian Commissioners for 3 Great Exhibitions: “Philadelphia Centennial” (1876); “Paris Universal” (1878); “Colonial and Indian” (1886) (in London). | |
| 1871 | F.G.S. |
| 1874 | F.R.S. |
| 1876 | Murchison Medal. |
| 1884 | Clarke Gold Medal from Royal Society of New South Wales. |
| 1886 | Made C.M.G. |
| 1894 | Retired. |
| 1902 | Died October 19th at Vancouver. |
Biographies and obituaries
Obituary - Alfred R.C. Selwyn, C.m.G., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S. Born in 1824, died November 1902. Geologists Magazine. New Series. v. 10 p.96. 1903
Lapworth, C. Obituary - Alfred Charles Selwyn, C.M.G., LL.D., F.R.S. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 59 p.lxi-lxiii. 1903
Proceedings Royal Society LXXV (1905) p. 325
Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn — Wikipedia article
Branagan, D.F. and Townley, K.A. Selwyn, Alfred Richard (1824–1902)] Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 6, (MUP), 1976
Selwyn, Alfred Richard Cecil (1824–1902) 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica on Wikisource
Selwyn, Alfred Richard Cecil Dictionary of Canadian Biography volume 13 (1901–1910)