Henry Benedict Medlicott M.A., F.R.S.

Images

• 
• 

Timeline

Date	Details
1829	Born August 3rd at Loughrea, County Galway, son of Rev. S. Medlicott, educated at Trinity College, Dublin.
1851	Appointed to Geological Survey in Ireland.
1853	Transferred to the English branch. Worked with Aveline in the Vale of Pewsey and other parts of Wiltshire.
1854	Appointed to Indian Geological Survey (commenced duties 1854).
1854	Chosen Professor of Geology at the Thomason College of Engineering at Roorkee.
1876	Became Superintendent (and afterwards Director) of Geological Survey of India.
1877	Elected F.R.S.
1887	Retired.
1888	Wollaston Medal.
1905	Died April 6th at Clifton, Bristol.

Biographies and obituaries

Proceedings Royal Society. B. LXXIX (1907) p. xix.

Memoir on Indian Surveys C.R. Markham (1878) pp. 225,etc.

Henry Benedict Medlicott — Wikipedia article

Medlicott, Henry Benedict. Who's Who. Vol. 57. 1905. p. 1102.

Blanford, W. T (1907). Obituary Notices of Fellows Deceased. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Containing Papers of a Biological Character. 79 (535): i-xxxvii+xxxviii-lxiii.

Grout, A (2004). Medlicott, Henry Benedict (1829–1905). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/34972

Medlicott, Henry Benedict.) Dictionary of Indian Biography.djvu/300

BGS archives

Ref No	Title	Description
GSM/DC/A/C/3/256	J.G. Medlicott: Letter about appointment of Medlicott.
GSM/DC/A/C/4/32	J G Medlicott: Letter about Medlicott's salary.
GSM/DC/A/C/4/32, 235	T Oldham: Letter to H T De la Beche about Mr. Medlicott.
GSM/DC/A/C/4/235-237	J G Medlicott: Letter about leave of absence.
GSM/DC/A/C/4/280	J B Jukes: Letters on Medlicott's pay.
GSM/DC/A/C/4/319	H B Medlicott: Letters on his appointment.
GSM/DC/A/C/6/89	H B Medlicott: Letters on transfer to England.
GSM/DC/A/C/6/104,126,146	H B Medlicott: Letter on transfer to India.