William Talbot Aveline
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Timeline
| Date | Details |
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| 1822 | Born. |
| 1840 | Appointed, Assistant Geologist under De la Beche. |
| Worked for a short time in Somerset on the Mendip Hills, then transferred to South Wales and surveyed parts of Pembroke. | |
| Worked through other countries into North Wales, across borders to parts of West of England and into Midlands as far as Nottingham. | |
| 1867 | Appointed District Surveyor in charge of mapping of Lake District. Lived at Kendal till retirement. |
| 1882 | Retired. |
| 1894 | Murchison Medal. |
| 1903 | Died May 12th. [Copy of newspaper death notice with manuscript.] |
Biographies and obituaries
Geikie, A. Obituary - William Talbot Aveline. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 60 p.lxvi-lxviii. 1904
Obituary - William Talbot Aveline, F.G.S. (1822-12.5.1903). Geologists Magazine. New Series. v. 10 p.285-286. 1903
Newspaper death notice attached to ms.
BGS archives
GSM/DC/A/C/25/27-28 W T Aveline: Letters on his retirement.
GSM/DC/A/C/31/130 W T Aveline: Letters on his retirement
GSM/DR/Ra/A/2 Correspondence of A.Ramsey in various matters. Includes letters to Aveline (396), W.H.Baily, H.T...
GSM/GL/Av William Talbot Aveline Aveline was an early Survey geologist, joining in 1840. He worked briefly in the Mendip Hills and...
GSM/GL/Av/4 Three pages of pencil notes and colour sketches of geology around Builth by an early surveyor (W...
GSM/GL/Av/5 Letters and papers re Aveline's retirement.
GSM/GL/Bw/29/176 W T Aveline: Letters on annual reports.
From Flett's history of the Survey
William Talbot Aveline The other recruit to the Geological Survey at this period was William Talbot Aveline. He was eighteen years of age and nothing seems to be known about his geological training and qualifications. De la Beche’s selection of him, however, was fully justified by his subsequent career. Aveline was a man of great strength and singular taciturnity. He was an enthusiastic worker and not only diligent but extremely accurate, and a most competent observer. In the hard work subsequently entailed by the survey of the mountainous tracts of North Wales Aveline positively revelled, and the friendship between him and Ramsay was based on perfect mutual confidence and esteem. Aveline had begun work in Somersetshire, where part of Sheet 19 had still to be finished, but he was transferred to South Wales in 1841. In one respect Aveline differed from Ramsay, for he was by no means a ready writer and, though he furnished notes to many of his colleagues, he wrote few geological memoirs and he is principally remembered for his excellent maps.