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== Richard Hill Tiddeman 1842-1917 == | |||
Extract with permission of the author from: Cooper A.H. Yorkshire geology as seen through the eyes of notable British Geological Survey geologists 1862-200046-67 in Myerscough, R and Wallace, V. Famous Geologists of Yorkshire. York. ISBN 978-1-906604-58-5. [http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/514376/1/Cooper%202016%20Yorkshire%20geology%20by%20notable%20British%20Geological%20Survey%20geologists%20NORA.pdf PDF on NORA] | |||
On leaving Llanrwst Grammar School Tiddeman studied at Oriel College Oxford under Professor Phillips (William Smith’s nephew). Tiddeman was appointed to the Geological Survey in 1864 as an assistant geologist . He was chiefly employed with the survey of the Carboniferous rocks of North Lancashire, West Yorkshire and Westmorland, but also worked in North Wales and South Glamorgan . He is best known for his pioneering work on the Carbonifereous “reef knolls” and the Quaternary deposits of the Victoria Cave, both near Settle. His understanding of the fossil reef moundss fringing the Askrigg Block platform and the influence of fault movements during sedimentary deposition were presented to the International Geological Congress in 1888. His then controversial ideas are now accepted and illustrated by the modern diagram from the Pennines and adjacent areas regional guide which shows the juxtaposition of the reefs with the Craven faults on the edge of the Askrigg Block at the margin of the Craven Basin . | |||
In addition to the obligatory Geological Survey memoirs, Tiddeman’s study of the Victoria Cave near Settle recognised pre-glacial cave deposits with the bones of hippopotamus, hyena and humans . He supervised the excavations from 1873 to 1878 following on from William Boyd Dawkins (an eminent expert on Ice Age mammals), but the two had opposing views about ice ages and interglacial periods. Tiddeman was decried by Professor Dawkins, but he was eventually proved correct although it took another 30 years before Tiddeman’s views were accepted. In 1881 the geologist James Geikie (brother of the Geological Survey director from 1882 - Archibald Geikie) described Dawkins as “…..a vain cocky humbug….It is monstrous that such a nincompoop in physical geology should be allowed to strut about as an authority…” . Tiddeman obviously had an uphill struggle against the powerful professor. | |||
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| Date | Details |
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| 1842 | Born February 11th. |
| 1864 | Appointed Assistant Geologist in Geological Survey. |
| Worked for 20 years on Carboniferous rocks of Yorkshire, Cumberland and Lancashire. Later in North Wales. | |
| Contributed to many Survey memoirs and maps. | |
| 1870 | Promoted to Geologist. |
| 1902 | Retired from Survey. |
| 1911 | Murchison Medal. |
| 1914 | Elected President of Yorkshire Geological Society. |
| 1917 | Died February 20th. |
Biographies and obituaries
Harker, A. Obituary - Richard Hill Tiddeman, born 1842, died 1917. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 74 p.liv-lvi. 1918
Richard Hill Tiddeman M.A. (Oxon.), F.G.S., etc. (1917). Geological Magazine, 4(5), 238-239. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756800136313
Richard Hill Tiddeman Entry in England: The Other Within. Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum
Publications
Papers: Evidence for ice-sheet in North Lancashire.. (1872)(Q.J. XXVIII p. 471)
Older deposits in Victoria Cave, Settle, Yorks. (1873) (G.M. p. 11)
Carboniferous Trilobites…. (1894) (Henry Woodward. Notes by Tiddeman – G.M. p. 481)
Age of raised beach of South Britain as seen in Gower (1900) (G.M. p. 441)
On the formation of reef-knolls (1901) (G.M. p. 20)
Memoir: Burnley Coalfield (1875) with Hull, Dakyns, C. Ward etc.
Memoir: Appleby, Ullswater etc. (1897) with Dakyns and Goodchild
Memoir: Ingleborough (1888) with Dakyns, Gunn, Strahan etc.
Memoir: South Wales Coalfield Part IV Pontypridd (1903) with Strahan and Gibson
Memoir: South Wales Coalfield Part VIII Swansea (1914); Water-supply of Oxfordshire (1910)
Memoir: Rhyl, Abergele and Colwyn (1885)
Memoir: Mallerstang (1891) with Dakyns, Russell, Clough, Strahan, etc.
Memoir: Kendal, Sedburgh etc. (1888)
Memoir: Kirkby Lonsdale (1872) with Aveline and McK. Hughes
Other archives
Portrait of Richard Hill Tidfderman Geological Society of London Archives
Richard Hill Tiddeman 1842-1917
Extract with permission of the author from: Cooper A.H. Yorkshire geology as seen through the eyes of notable British Geological Survey geologists 1862-200046-67 in Myerscough, R and Wallace, V. Famous Geologists of Yorkshire. York. ISBN 978-1-906604-58-5. PDF on NORA
On leaving Llanrwst Grammar School Tiddeman studied at Oriel College Oxford under Professor Phillips (William Smith’s nephew). Tiddeman was appointed to the Geological Survey in 1864 as an assistant geologist . He was chiefly employed with the survey of the Carboniferous rocks of North Lancashire, West Yorkshire and Westmorland, but also worked in North Wales and South Glamorgan . He is best known for his pioneering work on the Carbonifereous “reef knolls” and the Quaternary deposits of the Victoria Cave, both near Settle. His understanding of the fossil reef moundss fringing the Askrigg Block platform and the influence of fault movements during sedimentary deposition were presented to the International Geological Congress in 1888. His then controversial ideas are now accepted and illustrated by the modern diagram from the Pennines and adjacent areas regional guide which shows the juxtaposition of the reefs with the Craven faults on the edge of the Askrigg Block at the margin of the Craven Basin .
In addition to the obligatory Geological Survey memoirs, Tiddeman’s study of the Victoria Cave near Settle recognised pre-glacial cave deposits with the bones of hippopotamus, hyena and humans . He supervised the excavations from 1873 to 1878 following on from William Boyd Dawkins (an eminent expert on Ice Age mammals), but the two had opposing views about ice ages and interglacial periods. Tiddeman was decried by Professor Dawkins, but he was eventually proved correct although it took another 30 years before Tiddeman’s views were accepted. In 1881 the geologist James Geikie (brother of the Geological Survey director from 1882 - Archibald Geikie) described Dawkins as “…..a vain cocky humbug….It is monstrous that such a nincompoop in physical geology should be allowed to strut about as an authority…” . Tiddeman obviously had an uphill struggle against the powerful professor.