William Whitehead Watts LL.D., D.Sc., M.Sc., F.R.S.
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| Date | Details |
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| 1860 | Born at Broseley in Shropshire. |
| School at Denstone. Scholarship to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. | |
| 1881 | 1st class in Geology in Natural Science Tripos. |
| 1881-1891 | University extension lecturing and various deputy-professorships. |
| 1891 | Appointed to Irish Geological Survey. Given charge of Survey Collections in National Museum in Dublin. |
| Transferred to English Survey, acted as Petrographer till 1897. | |
| 1897 | Resigned from Survey. Appointed to new assistant professorship at Mason College with Lapworth. |
| 1904 | Made Member of Senate and Professor of Geography in the newly constituted University of Birmingham. |
| 1904 | Elected to F.R.S. |
| 1906 | Succeeded Judd at Royal College of Science. |
| 1906 | Continued as Professor on reconstitution with Royal School of Mines and Central Technical College as Imperial College of Science and Technology. |
| 1906 | Worked on a succession of rocks in Shropshire, partly with Lapworth (paper in Q.J.). |
| 1906 | Survey work: (in addition to routine petrographical work) |
| 1906 | Examination of rocks collected by Jukes and others in Ireland and deposited in Survey Museum in Dublin. |
| 1906 | Description of Isle of Man rocks (in association with Lamplugh’s work on crush-conglomerates). |
| 1906 | Mapping and description of Charnwood Forest rocks. |
| 1906 | Handbook to Inst. rock collections |
Biographies and obituaries
Publications
Contributed petrological notes to following Memoirs:
Memoir: Northumberland – Wooler and Coldstream (1895)
Memoir: Isle of Man (1903).
Memoir: South Wales Coalfield II
Memoir: Abergavenny
Memoir: Appleby (1897)
Memoir: Atherstone and Charnwood Forest (1900)