Edward Hull (geologist)

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Edward Hull

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
.

Biography

He was born in

Trinity College, Dublin
.

He joined the Geological Survey of Ireland and worked in Wales and on the Lancashire Coalfield. He worked for the Geological Survey of Scotland (1867-1868) and led an expedition to survey parts of Arabia Petraea and Palestine (1883). He became Director of the Irish branch of the Survey and retired in 1891. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1867.[3] He was President of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland in 1873.[4]

His daughter Charlotte Ferguson-Davie became a noted physician. He died at his home in Notting Hill, London, aged 88.[1] Edward Hull's obituarist wrote of him, "He maintained the honour of a gentleman."[5]

Works

  • The geology of the country around Wigan, Memoirs / Geological Survey. England and Wales; no. 89 S.W., H.M.S.O., London, 1860
  • The geology of the country around Prescot, Lancashire (2nd ed.), H.M.S.O., 1865
  • The Triassic and Permian rocks of the midland counties of England, [Gt. Brit. Geological survey] Memoirs of the Geological survey, England and Wales, H.M.S.O., London, 1869
  • The Physical Geology and Geography of Ireland, Edward Stranforth, London, 1878; (revised, 2nd edition, 1891)
  • The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoir on the Physical Geology and Geography of Arabia Petraea. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. 1886.
  • Volcanoes: Past and Present. The contemporary science series. London: Walter Scott, Ltd. 1892.
  • The Wallchart of World History
    ; This book has been updated in the late 20th century and 21st century.
  • The Coal-fields of Great Britain: Their History, Structure and Resources, E. Stanford, 1861
  • Geology of Belfast and the Lagan Valley: (One-Inch Geological Sheet 36) - with H. E. Wilson, Manning, P. I., and James Andrew Robbie.
  • Reminiscences of a Strenuous Life (autobiography), 1909, 2nd edition, 1910

Family

Hull married in 1857 Mary Catherine Henrietta Cooke, daughter of Charles Turner Cooke, a surgeon in

Charlotte Elizabeth Ferguson-Davie.[6][7][8] Another daughter, Alice, married in 1896 John Hill Twigg (1841–1917) of the Indian Civil Service.[9][10]

Coat of arms of Edward Hull
Notes
6 June 1901[11]
Crest
On a wreath of the colours a talbot's head erased Argent gorged with a collar dancettee Erminois between two laurel branches Proper.
Escutcheon
Sable a chevron engrailed Erminois between three talbots' heads erased Argent.
Motto
Vi Et Virtute

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Death of Professor Edward Hull". Northern Whig. 23 October 1917. p. 5. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  2. ^ "History of Science: Nature (February 3, 1870)". Retrieved 16 September 2006.
  3. ^ "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 23 November 2010.[permanent dead link‍]
  4. ^ "Hull, Professor Edward". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. pp. 892–893.
  5. ^ Cambridge journals: where this text is recorded Geological Magazine, n.s. decade 6, IV (1917), 553-5, at page 555.
  6. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/53969. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  7. ^ The Medical Times and Gazette0: A Journal of Medical Science, Literature, Criticism, and News. 1875. p. 244.
  8. ^ Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed & Official Classes. Kelly's Directories. 1912. p. 1548.
  9. ^ Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1929–30). Armorial Families. Vol. 2 (7th ed.). London: Hurst & Blackett. p. 1978.
  10. ISBN 9781349030941
    . Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  11. ^ "Grants and Confirmations of Arms Vol. J". National Library of Ireland. 8 January 1898. p. 203. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
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