Aubrey Strahan
Sir Aubrey Strahan
Personal life
Aubrey Strahan was born on 20 April 1852 in London. He was the fifth son of William Strahan and Anne Dorothea Strahan. He was raised at Blackmore Hall, near Sidmouth, until he went to Eton at the age of 13. He then went to St John's College, Cambridge (his father's college) in 1870. In May 1875 (the year of his graduation) he was employed in a temporary capacity by the Geological Survey, then headed by Andrew Ramsay, as an assistant geologist. He was to remain with the Survey for the rest of his professional life.[1][3]
He married Fannie Roscoe in 1886. At this time he was mostly working in the south of England, but in 1901 became District Geologist with responsibility for South Wales. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1903, became President of the Geology Section of the British Association in 1904, and was President of the Geological Society of London in 1913 and 1914. He was Director of the Survey from 1914 until his retirement in 1920. He lived in Goring-on-Thames until his death there in 1928.[3]
Works
His appointment as Director of the Survey coincided with the outbreak of the
References
- ^ S2CID 129954196.
- ^ "Strahan, Aubrey". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1691.
- ^ JSTOR 81326.
- ^ Flett, J S "One Hundred Years of the Geological Survey of Great Britain" (London: HMSO, 1937)
- ^ See in particular the 1904 memoirs on South Wales listed below, and the 1908 work on anthracite
- ^ Strahan (1917)
- ^ Dewey, Henry; Dines, H.G. (1915). Special reports on the mineral resources of Great Britain. Vol I – Tungsten and the Manganese ores. Memoirs of the Geological Survey. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO). Full text of 3rd Edition (1923) available at Archive.org
Selected publications
- Ussher, W.A.E.; Jukes-Browne, A.J.; Strahan, Aubrey (1888). The geology of the country around Lincoln. (Explanation of sheet 83). Memoirs of the Geological Survey. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO).
- Dakyns, J.R.; Tiddeman, R.H.; Gunn, W.; Strahan, Aubrey (1890). The geology of the country around Ingleborough, with parts of Wensleydale and Wharfedale. (Explanation of quarter-sheet 97 S. W., new series, sheet 50). Memoirs of the Geological Survey. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO).
- Strahan, Aubrey; Walker, Alfred O. (1891). "On the Occurrence of Pebbles with Upper Ludlow Fossils in the Lower Carboniferous Conglomerates of North Wales". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London. 35 (1–4): 268–274. S2CID 128490420.
- Strahan, Aubrey (1891). The geology of the neighbourhoods of Flint, Mold, and Ruthin. (Explanation of quarter-sheet 79 S.E.). Memoirs of the Geological Survey. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO).
- Dakyns, J.R.; Tiddeman, R.H.; Russell, R.; Clough, C.T.; Strahan, Aubrey (1891). The geology of the country around Mallerstang, with parts of Wensleydale, Swaledale, and Arkendale. (Explanation of quarter-sheet 97 N. W., new series, sheet 40). Memoirs of the Geological Survey. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO).
- Strahan, Aubrey (1895). The geology of the coasts adjoining Rhyl, Abergele, and Colwyn, (explanation of quarter-sheet 79 N. W.). Memoirs of the Geological Survey. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO).
- Strahan, Aubrey (1898). The Geology of the Isle of Purbeck and Weymouth. Memoirs of the Geological Survey. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO).
- Strahan, Aubrey (1902). "On the Origin of the River-System of South Wales, and its Connection with that of the Severn and the Thames". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London. 58 (1–4): 207–225. S2CID 140196029.
- Strahan, Aubrey; Gibson, Walcot; Cantrill, T. C. (1904). The geology of the South Wales coal-field. Part V The country around Merthyr Tydfil. Being an account of the area comprised in sheet 231 of the map. Memoirs of the Geological Survey. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO).
- Strahan, Aubrey; Cantrill, T. C. (1904). The geology of the South Wales coal-field. Part VI The country around Bridgend. Being an account of the area comprised in sheets 261, 262 of the map. Memoirs of the Geological Survey. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO).
- Strahan, Aubrey; Pollard, William (1908). The Coals of South Wales: With Special Reference to the Origin and Distribution of Anthracite. Memoirs of the Geological Survey. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO).
- Strahan, Aubrey (1910). Guide to the Geological Model of Ingleborough and District. Memoirs of the Geological Survey. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO).
- Strahan, Aubrey (1916). On the thicknesses of strata in the counties of England and Wales, exclusive of rocks older than the Permian. Memoirs of the Geological Survey. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO).
- Strahan, Aubrey (1917). "Geology at the Seat of War". Geological Magazine. 4 (2): 68–74. S2CID 128833600.