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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
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