George Charles Crick
George Charles Crick | |
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Born | |
Died | 18 October 1917 Wimbledon, London, England | (aged 61)
Education | Bedford Modern School |
Alma mater | Royal School of Mines |
George Charles Crick
Crick was born in Ampthill, Bedfordshire, on 9 October 1856.[5][6] He was the son of Dr. Francis William Crick[7] and educated at Bedford Modern School and the Royal School of Mines.[6][8] Between January 1881 and 1886, Crick was employed as Assistant Secretary to Sir Warington Smyth, Chairman of "H.M. Commission to enquire into Accidents in Mines, etc.".[6] In the same year and in a voluntary capacity, Crick joined the Geological Department of the Natural History Museum, London.[6]
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In the course of his career Crick wrote sixty-seven papers that were published in various scientific journals including seven written in association with Arthur Humphreys Foord and one with Richard Bullen Newton[2][6][10] who was also a first assistant at the Natural History Museum.[11] His work included the description of seventy-four new species and the description of three new genera: Amphoreopsis, Styracoteuthis, and Belemnocamax.[6]
Crick was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of London in 1881, a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London in 1896 and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1916.[6]
Crick died in Wimbledon on 18 October 1917[1] and was survived by his wife, Emily Harriett Crick, who herself died on 29 January 1919.[12]
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- ^ "Staff Files: George Charles Crick". nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
- ^ "Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Drawings in the British Museum (Natural History) (A–D)". Mocavo. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
- ^ "Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records at Ancestry.co.uk". ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Natural History Museum Archive Catalogue". nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
- ^ Baptism at the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Ampthill, Bedfordshire, on 4 January 1857
- ^ "George Charles Crick | Shellers From the Past and Present". www.conchology.be.
- ^ "Chapter 3 Assistant at the British Museum (Natural History) from 1887; early years". lyellcollection.org. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
- ^ Foord, Arthur Humphrys; Crick, George Charles (1897). "Catalog of the Fossil Cephalopoda in the British Museum (Natural History)". google.co.uk. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
- ISBN 9781862393233. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
- ^ "No. 31201". The London Gazette. 25 February 1919. p. 2780.