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| Date |
Details
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| 1854 |
Born.
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| 1870 |
Appointed Fossil Collector.
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| 1880 |
Resigned.
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| 1843 |
Born.
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| 1861 |
Entered Royal School of Mines as a student.
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| 1864 |
Gained Edward Forbes Medal.
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| 1865 |
Joined Geological Survey. Sent to Yorkshire, worked on Millstone Grit and Lower Coal Measures (paper to Geological Society 1869).
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| 1869 |
Transferred to Keswick. Memoir: “Lake District” (1876); Papers: “Lake basins of Cumberland” (Q.J. 1874); “Glaciation of south part of Lake District (Q.J. 1875).
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| 1875-1876 |
Engaged in microscopical examination of Lake District rocks. Papers: “Granitic, granitoid and metamorphic rocks of the Lake District” (Q.J. 1875,1876); “Comparative microscopic rock structure of Ancient and Modern volcanic rocks” (Q.J. 1875). Founded the
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| 1877 |
Left Lake District for Lower Carboniferous of Bewcastle.
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| 1878 |
Entered the Church. Licensed to curacy of St. John’s, Keswick.
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| 1880 |
Appointed to Vicarage of Rydal.
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| 1880 |
Died.
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Biographies and obituaries
Etheridge, R. Obituary - Rev. James Clifton Ward. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 37 p.41-43. 1881
Obituary - Rev. James Clifton Ward, F.G.S. (1843-1880). Geologists Magazine. New Series. v. 7 p.334-336. 1880
Publications
Memoirs: Lake District , north part of (1876); Leeds and Tadcaster (1870) with Aveline, Green, Dakyns, Russell.; Dewsbury (1871) with Green, Dakyns, Russell.; Appleby (1897) (petrological notes); Yorkshire Coalfield (1869) with Green and Dakyn.;
BGS archives
| Ref No |
Title |
Description
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| GSM/GL/Wd |
J.C.Ward |
Ward joined the Survey in 1865.
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| GSM/MG/P/4/89 |
Letters to F.W. Rudler about analysis of nickel minerals. |
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