James Ward
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| Date | Details |
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| 1854 | Born. |
| 1870 | Appointed Fossil Collector. |
| 1880 | Resigned. |
| 1843 | Born. |
| 1861 | Entered Royal School of Mines as a student. |
| 1864 | Gained Edward Forbes Medal. |
| 1865 | Joined Geological Survey. Sent to Yorkshire, worked on Millstone Grit and Lower Coal Measures (paper to Geological Society 1869). |
| 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). |
| 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 |
| 1877 | Left Lake District for Lower Carboniferous of Bewcastle. |
| 1878 | Entered the Church. Licensed to curacy of St. John’s, Keswick. |
| 1880 | Appointed to Vicarage of Rydal. |
| 1880 | Died. |
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
James Clifton Ward — Wikipedia article
Ward, James Clifton. Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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.
Works listed in the BGS Library catalogue
Survey publications
Green, A.H. ; Dakyns, J.R. ; Ward, J.C. ; Geological Survey of Great Britain (1869). The geology of part of the Yorkshire coal field (...Quarter-sheet 88SE...). (Memoir (Sheet) Geological Survey of Great Britain (England & Wales) - Old Series). London : HMSO.
Hull, E. ; Dakyns, J.R. ; Tiddeman, R.H. ; Ward, J.C. ; De Rance, C.E. ; Gunn, W. ; Geological Survey of Great Britain (1875). The geology of the Burnley Coalfield and of the country around Clitheroe, Blackburn, Preston, Chorley, Hashingden and Todmorde : (Quarter sheets 88NW,89NE,89NW and 92SW of the 1-inch geological maps. (Coalfield Mem Geol Surv Eng Wales). London : HMSO.
Aveline, W.T. ; Green, A.H. ; Dakyns, J.R. ; Ward, J.C. ; Russell, R. ; Geological Survey of Great Britain (1870). The geology of the Carboniferous rocks north and east of Leeds, and the Permian and Triassic rocks about Tadcaster (...quarter-sheet 93SW...). (Memoir (Sheet) Geological Survey of Great Britain (England & Wales) - Old Series). London : HMSO.
Dakyns, J.R. ; Tiddeman, R.H. ; Goodchild, J.G. ; Ward, J.C. ; Watts, W.W. ; Geological Survey of Great Britain (1897). The geology of the country between Appleby, Ullswater, and Haweswater (...Quarter-sheet 102SW). (Memoir (Sheet) Geological Survey of Great Britain (England & Wales) - Old Series). London : HMSO.
Green, A.H. ; Dakyns, J.R. ; Ward, J.C. ; Russell, R. ; Geological Survey of Great Britain (1871). The geology of the neighbourhood of Dewsbury, Huddersfield, and Halifax (...Quarter sheet 88NE...). (Memoir (Sheet) Geological Survey of Great Britain (England & Wales) - Old Series). London : HMSO.
Ward, J.C. (1876). The geology of the northern part of the English Lake District - quarter sheet 101SE (including sheets 63,64,69,70,71,76 + portions of 54,55,56,57,62,65,68,73,74,75 Cumberland and 12,18,19 Westmoreland. (Memoir (District) Geological Survey of GB). London : HMSO.
Green, A.H. ; Russell, R. ; Dakyns, J.R. ; Ward, J.C. ; Fox-Strangways, C.E. ; Dalton, W.H. ; Holmes, T.V. ; Geological Survey of Great Britain (1878). The geology of the Yorkshire Coalfield. (Coalfield Mem Geol Surv Eng Wales). London : HMSO.
External publications
Robinson, E. ; Dakyns, J.R. ; Ward, J.C. ; Green, A.H. And did those feet, in ancient times? : Amateur Geologist XIII(2)p22-26.
Ward, J.C. (1872). Elementary geology : a course of nine lectures specially adapted for the use of schools and junior students. (1872).
Freire-Marreco, A. ; Hill, A. ; Moffitt, R. ; Jervis, W.P. ; Galloway, W. ; De Rance, C.E. ; Ward, J.C. ; Burder, G.F. ; Gardiner, E.J.L. ; Fryer, A.C. ; MacCulloch, J. ; Woodward, H.B. ; Davy, J. ; Schneider, H.W. ; Durden, E.H. ; Thorp, W. ; Sorby, H.C. ; Watson, J. ; Hunt, R. ; Wright, T. ; Sopwith, T. ; Richardson, T. ; Daglish, J. ; Forster, G.B. ; Bell, I.L. ; Spencer, T. ; Robinson, H. ; Curry, J. ; Maw, G. ; Brigg, J. ; Gulland, J.K. ; Kendall, J.D. ; Aitken, J. ; Collins, J.H. ; Barrow, G. ; Topley, W. ; Dakyns, J.R. ; Andre, G.G. ; Foster, C.L.N. ; Halse, E. ; Holmes, T.V. ; Ashburner, C.A. ; Browett, A. ; Hull, E. ; Brierley, J. ; Wallis, A.M. ; Bedson, P.P. ; Shaw, J.L. ; Fream, W. ; Topley, W. (1855-1894). England and Wales : economic. (Survey pamphlet; 17).
Ward, J.C. Notes on the geology of the Isle of Man : Geological Magazine decade II, vol.VII, no.I 1880 p.1-9.
Ward, J.C. (1875). On the granitic, granitoid, and associated metamorphic rocks of the Lake-District. Parts I & II. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society (1875) p. 568-602 (1875) ; p. 568-602.
Ward, J.C. (1876). On the granitic, granitoid, and associated metamorphic rocks of the Lake-District. Parts III-V. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society (1876) p. 1-34 (1876) ; p. 1-34.
Ward, J.C. Rambles among the modern volcanoes of Italy. Hardwicke's Science Gossip 1873 p201-2.
Ward, J.C. Rambles among the modern volcanoes of Italy no.2. Hardwicke's Science-Gossip 1873 p217-221.
Ward, J.C. ; Topley, W. (1875-1879). Rock structure. XII. [S.l.] : [s.n.].
Ward, J.C. Scenery of the Lake District geologically considered. Hardwicke's Science-Gossip 1873 p121-128.
BGS archives
| Ref No | Title | Description |
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| GSM/GL/Wd | J.C.Ward | Ward joined the Survey in 1865. |
| GSM/MG/P/4/89 | Letters to F.W. Rudler about analysis of nickel minerals. |