William Whitaker

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1836 Born May 4th in London. Educated at St. Albans Grammar School and University College London.
1855 B.A. Hons. In Chemistry.
Engaged as assistant in Geological Museum.
1857 Appointed to Geological Survey.
Worked with Hull, Polwhele and Bauerman in Oxfordshire and Berkshire, and the country near Brill, Buckinghamshire.
Later with Bristow in Berkshire and N. Hants.
1859 Elected F.G.S.
1863 Promoted to Geologist.
Took on original survey of London Basin.
Also whole of Essex and Suffolk and parts of West Norfolk and Cambridge.
1882 Appointed District Surveyor, stationed at Southampton. Surveyed parts of S. Hants. And superintended re-surveys in Bedford, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Northants, Oxford and Wiltshire.
Leading authority on water-supply and underground geology.
1885 Associate Institution of Civil Engineers. A.I.C.E.
1886 Murchison Medal.
1887 Elected F.R.S.
1896 Retired.
1898-1900 President of Geological Society.
1906 Prestwich Medal.
1923 Wollaston Medal.
1925 Died January 15th.

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Publications

List of papers and geological Survey Publications see “Geological Magazine (1907), pp. 52-58).

Memoirs: “Memoir Geological Survey vol. IV London Basin” (1872); “London and parts Thames Valley, vols. I and II” (1889); “Guide to Geology of London” (1901); “Parts of Middlesex” (1864); “Ipswich etc” (1885); “East Essex” (1877); “Southwold and Suffolk C

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