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
Spencer, L.J. Obituary - William Whitehead Watts. Born 7th June 1860, died 30th July 1947. Mineralogical Magazine. v. 28 p.225-226. 1947
Oldham, R.D. Obituary - William Watts. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 77 p.lxxii-lxxiii. 1921
Fearnsides, W.G. Obituary - William Whitehead Watts. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 105 p.lviii-lxii. 1949
William Whitehead Watts — Wikipedia article
Boswell Percy George Hamnall. William Whitehead Watts, 1860-1947 Obit. Not. Fell. R. Soc.6263–279 http://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.1948.0030
Watts, W. (1915). I.—Eminent Living Geologists. Geological Magazine, 2(11), 481-487. doi:10.1017/S0016756800203622
Watts, Willian Whitehead. Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002
Watts, William Whitehead (WTS87WW). A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
Barrett, A. (2004, September 23). Watts, William Whitehead (1860–1947), geologist and educationist. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 29 Aug. 2020, from https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-51710.
Prof W. W. Watts, F.R.S.: President-Elect of the British Association. Nature 134, 410 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134410b0
Boswell, P. Prof. W. W. Watts, F.R.S. Nature 160, 355–356 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160355a0
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)
BGS archives
Other archives
Watts, William Whitehead (1860-1947), geologist Entry at The National Archives
[https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsbm.1948.0030 William Whitehead Watts - signed portrait. Royal Society