Horace Bolingbroke Woodward F.R.S., F.G.S.
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| Date | Details |
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| 1848 | Born August 20th. Son of S.P. Woodward (Palaeontologist). |
| Educated at private School. | |
| 1863 | Appointed assistant to Geological Society, Secretary was H.M. Jenkins. |
| 1867 | Appointed Assistant Geologist on Geological Survey under Murchison. |
| Worked under Bristow in Somerset and other districts. | |
| Took part in first drift survey of London area. | |
| Transferred to Somerset Coalfield, worked in Devon, Somerset and Dorset. Transferred to Norfolk and Norwich. | |
| 1875 | Promoted to Geologist. |
| 1885 | Murchison Fund. |
| 1894 | On death of Topley took charge of Jermyn Street Office under Geikie. |
| 1896 | Appointed District Surveyor. |
| 1896 | Elected F.R.S. |
| 1897 | Murchison Medal. |
| 1899 | Acting Director for England and Wales. |
| 1901 | Assistant to Director. |
| 1908 | Retired. |
| 1909 | Wollaston Medal. |
| 1914 | Died February 6th at Croydon. |
Biographies and obituaries
Obituary - Horace Bolingbroke Woodward, F.R.S., F.G.S. Born 20th August 1848, died 6th February 1914. Geologists Magazine. New Series. v. 1 p.142-144. 1914
Obituary - Horace Bolingbroke Woodward. Died 6th February 1914. Proceedings of the Geologists Association. v. 26 p.142-144. 1915
Strahan, A. Obituary - Horace Bolingbroke Woodward, born 1848, died 1913. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 70 p.lxxiii- lxxvi. 1914
Proceedings Royal Society (B) vol. 91
Publications
Works listed in the BGS Library catalogue
Memoir: Jurassic rocks of Britain, Vol. IV
Memoir: Jurassic rocks of Britain, Vol. V (1895);
Memoir: Jurassic rocks of Britain, Vol. III (1893)
Memoir: Norwich (1881)
Memoir: East Somerset and Bristol Coalfields (1876)
Memoir: 'London District (revised 1922)
Water Supply Memoirs London 1909 etc.
History of Geology (1911)
History of the Geological Society (1907)
Memorial of John Gunn (1891)
Geology of England and Wales (1876)
Geology of water supply (1910)
Geology of soils and subsoils (1912);
Edited late editions of Stanford’s Geological Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland.
Memoir: Glenelg (1910) with others.
Memoir: Sidmouth and Lyme Regis (1906) with Ussher;
Memoir: Cambridge and Suffolk (1891) with Whitaker and Jukes
Memoir: Water supply of Lincolnshire (1904)
Memoir: Water supply of Bedfordshire and Northants. (1909)
Memoir: 'Fakenham, Wells & Holt (1884)
Memoir: Salisbury (1882)
Memoir: Cromer (1882)
Memoir: East Dereham (1888)
Memoir: South Wales Coalfield, part VI (1904)
Memoir: Oxford (1908)
Memoir: Wellington and Chard (1906).
Contributed to: Paper for the Transactions Geological Society Glasgow