Aubrey Strahan M.A., K.B.E., D.Sc., F.R.S.
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| Date | Details |
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| 1852 | Born April 20th in Sidmouth, South Devon. |
| Educated at Eton and St. Johns College, Cambridge. | |
| 1874-1875 | Graduated in Natural Science Tripos. |
| 1875 | Appointed Assistant Geologist on Geological Survey under Ramsay, |
| Field work in South Lancashire then Cheshire, Lower Carboniferous of Flintshire, Silurian of Clwydian range, Trias of Vale of Clwyd. | |
| 1883 | Transferred to Lincolnshire to assist in completing last of Ordnance Survey 1inch maps. |
| 1884-1885 | Sent to Kendal and Sedburgh. |
| 1886 | Revised mapping of Coal Measures, Cambrian and Pre-cambrian near Nuneaton. Examined mines in Derbyshire for 2nd edition of North Derbyshire Memoir. |
| Began 6 inch survey of south part of Isle of Wight. | |
| 1887 | Continued work into Purbeck. |
| 1891 | Began re-survey of South Wales Coalfield, continued till completion, Memoir with W. Pollard.(Isle of Man (1892) and Cumberland Coalfield (1894)). |
| 1894 | Wollaston Fund. |
| 1896 | Geologist. |
| 1901 | District Geologist. |
| 1903 | Elected F.R.S. |
| 1904 | President Section C, British Association at Cambridge. |
| 1905 | Reported on Coalfields of Lancashire, Cheshire and North Wales for the Royal Commission on Coal Supplies, also made a report to Royal Commission on Arsenic Poisoning. |
| 1909 | Promoted to Assistant to Director. |
| British Association meeting at Winnipeg. | |
| 1910 | Attended International Geological Congress at Stockholm. |
| 1913 | Contributed British section to Canadian volumes on the “World’s Coal Resources” at International Congress at Toronto. Vice-President at Congress. |
| Received Honorary LL.D. from Toronto University. | |
| 1912-1914 | President of Geological Society. |
| 1914 | Appointed Director of Geological Survey. |
| 1919 | Made K.B.E. Received Wollaston Medal. |
| 1920 | Retired. |
| 1928 | Died March 4th at Goring, Berkshire. |
Biographies and obituaries
Obituary - Sir Aubrey Strahan, K.B.E., Sc.D., F.R.S. (1852-1928). Geologists Magazine. Whole Series. v. 65 p.239. 1928
Gregory, J.W. Obituary - Sir Aubrey Strahan, former President. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 85 p.lviii-lix. 1929
Nature (March 24th, 1928) p. 461
Aubrey Strahan — Wikipedia article
Eminent Living Geologists: Aubrey Strahan. Geological Magazine. New Series, Decade VI, Vol II (V): 193–198. 1915.
Strahan, Aubrey. Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1691.
Flett, J.S. (1928). Sir Aubrey Strahan 1852–1928. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 103: xvi–xx.
[Geological Survey under Sir Aubrey Strahan,1914–1920 The Geological Survey under Sir Aubrey Strahan 1914–1920.] In Flett, J. The first hundred years of the Geological Survey of Great Britain
Publications
Geological Magazine (1915) p. 196-8.
Memoir: Rhyl (1885)
Memoir: South Wales Coalfield, part XI
Memoir: South Wales Coalfield, part X
Memoir: South Wales Coalfield, part VIII
Memoir: South Wales Coalfield, part VII
Memoir: South Wales Coalfield, part VI
Memoir: South Wales Coalfield, part V
Memoir: South Wales Coalfield, part IV
Memoir: South Wales Coalfield, part III
Memoir: South Wales Coalfield, part II
Memoir: South Wales Coalfield, part IX
Memoir: South Wales Coalfield, part I
Memoir: Coals of South Wales (1915)
Memoir: Flint (1882)
Contributed to: Kendal 2nd edition (1888).
Contributed to: Thicknesses of Strata (1916)
Contributed to: Lincoln (1888)
Contributed to: Ingleborough (1888)
Contributed to: Mallerstang (1891)
Contributed to: North Derbyshire 2nd edition (1887)
Contributed to: Isle of Wight 2nd edition (1889)
Special Report: V. Potash, Feldspar (1916)
Special Report: VII. Mineral Oil (1920)
Special Report: XIII. Iron Ores (1920)
Special Report: . Lead and Zinc (1923).
Guides to Model: Thames Valley and Goring (1924).
Guides to Model: Ingleborough (1910)
Guides to Model: Purbeck (1906)