Edward William Binney

Edward William Binney FGS
Born	1812 (1812) Morton, Nottinghamshire, UK
Died	1882 (1883) Manchester, Lancashire, UK
Nationality	British
Occupation	Geologist

Edward William Binney

(1812–1882) was an English geologist.

Background

Edward William Binney was born at Morton, in Nottinghamshire in 1812, and educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Gainsborough. He was articled to a solicitor in Chesterfield, and settled in Manchester in 1836. He retired soon afterwards from legal practice and gave his chief attention to geological pursuits.^[1]

Geological Research

Working especially on the

Activities

Binney assisted in founding the Manchester Geological Society in 1838, and was then chosen as one of its Honorary Secretaries, later being elected President in 1857 and again in 1865. He was also successively Secretary (1848–52) and four-times President of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society (1862–4, 1870–2, 1876–8, and 1880–2).

Binney was part of a close Manchester social circle that included

He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1856 and died at Manchester in 1882.^[1]

References

Attribution:

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Binney, Edward William". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 949.

Further reading

• J. E. F. (February 1882). "Edward William Binney, F.R.S., F.G.S." Geological Magazine. 9 (2): 96.
  ISSN 1469-5081
  .
• Joule, J. P. (1882). "Edward William Binney, F.R.S, F.G.S." Nature. 25 (639). Macmillan Journals ltd.: 293–294.
  doi:10.1038/025293a0
  .
• Kargon, R. H. (1977). Science in Victorian Manchester: Enterprise and Expertise. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
  ISBN 0-8018-1969-5
  .
• Secord, A. "Binney, Edward William (1812–1881)",
  Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, accessed 10 August 2007 (subscription or UK public library membership
  required)
• Obituaries:
  • Manchester Examiner and Times
    , 21 December 1881
  • Manchester Guardian
    , 22 December 1881

Professional and academic associations
Preceded by James Prescott Joule	President of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 1862–64	Succeeded by Robert Angus Smith
Preceded by James Prescott Joule	President of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 1870–72	Succeeded by James Prescott Joule
Preceded by Henry Edward Schunck	President of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 1876–78	Succeeded by James Prescott Joule
Preceded by James Prescott Joule	President of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 1880–82	Succeeded by Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe
Preceded by James Prescott Joule	Secretary of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 1848–52	Succeeded by Henry Halford Jones