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			https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Oldham Thomas Oldham] — Wikipedia article

			Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Oldham,_Thomas_(DNB00) Oldham, Thomas.] Dictionary of National Biography. 42. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 111–112.

			Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Oldham,_Thomas Oldham, Thomas.] Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

			Patrick N. Wyse Jackson, 2005 [https://web.archive.org/web/20120315145541/http://www.habitas.org.uk/es2k/newsletter/Earth%20Science%202000%20Issue%2012.pdf Thomas Oldham (1816–1878)]. Earth Sciences 2000 Issue 12

	== Publications ==		== Publications ==

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			\| GSM/DC/A/C/3/133,188 \|\| T. Oldham: Letter to H.T. De la Beche about the Geological Survey of Ireland. \|\|
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			\| GSM/DC/A/C/3/206,209,270 \|\| T. Oldham: Letters from H.T. De la Beche about the Geological Survey of Ireland. \|\|
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			\| GSM/DC/A/C/3/226 \|\| T. Oldham: Annual Reports by Oldham. \|\|
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			\| GSM/DC/A/C/3/247,271,275 \|\| T. Oldham: Letters from H.T. De la Beche making payments of money. \|\|
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	== Publications ==		== Publications ==

			'''Works listed in the BGS Library catalogue'''

			Oldham, T. 1867. The coal resources and production of India. - Calcutta: Secretary of State for India

			India. Geological Survey; Museum. Oldham, T. Museum of the Geological Survey of India. 1866. Catalogue of the meteorites in the Museum of the Geological Survey of India, Calcutta. - Calcutta: The Survey

			Oldham, T. [Biographical information on Thomas Oldham] — Obituary files

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| 1816 || Born in Dublin.
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| || Educated at private school in Dublin and Trinity College. Took B.A. degree.
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| 1837-1838 || Studied engineering at Edinburgh, and geology and mineralogy under Jamieson.
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| 1839 || Returned to Ireland, became Geological Assistant to General Portlock R.E. (Geology Department, Ordnance Survey of Ireland) and assisted in survey of Derry and Tyrone. (Report 1843).
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| || Became Curator and Assistant Secretary to Geological Society, Dublin, also Assistant Secretary to Institute of Civil Engineers of Ireland.
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| 1844 || Appointed Assistant Professor of Engineering in Trinity College Dublin, under Professor J. MacNeill.
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| 1845 || Succeeded Professor Phillips to Chair of Geology at Dublin.
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| 1846 || Lecturer to Geological Society Dublin. Local Director of Survey for Ireland.
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| 1848 || President Geological Society Dublin. Elected F.R.S.
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| 1844-1849 || 12 papers to British Association and Dublin Geological Society Journal, all on Irish geology and palaeontology.
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| 1849 || Discovery of Oldhamia in Cambrian rocks of Wicklow Hills (named by E. Forbes).
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| 1850 || Resigned from Survey.
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| 1851 || Appointed Director of Geological Survey of India.
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| 1857 || Elected Member Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal (4 times President).
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| 1862-1864 || Memoir with J. Morris “Fossil Flora of Rajmahal Series”.
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| 1863 || Paper to Geological Society of London “On occurrence of rocks of Upper Cretaceous age in Eastern Bengal”.
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| 1867 || Report to Secretary of State for India : “On the coal resources of India”.
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| || 16 memoirs on Coalfields of India.
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| || Presented report on geology of India at British Association in Dundee.
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| 1875 || Gold Medal Royal Society. Also Gold Medal from Emperor of Austria. Member of following societies: “Imperial Academy “Isis” Society of Dresden”; Imperial Society of Nationalists, Moscow”; Royal Geological Society, Cornwall”; Geological Society of Edinburgh
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| 1876 || Retired.
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| 1878 || Died July 17th.
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== Biographies and obituaries ==

Obituary - Thomas Oldham, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., Late Director of the Geological Survey of India. Born May, 1816, died 17th July 1878. Geologists Magazine. New Series. v. 5 p.382-384. 1878

Quarterly Journal Geological Society (1879) p. 46

== Publications ==

== BGS archives ==

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