Henry Woodward (geologist)
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Henry Bolingbroke Woodward (24 November 1832 – 6 September 1921) was an
Woodward was born
Norwich, England on 24 November 1832 and was educated at Norwich School
.
He became assistant in the geological department of the
LL.D (St Andrews) in 1878, president of the Geological Society of London (1894–1896).[2] He was awarded the Murchison Medal in 1884 and Wollaston Medal in 1906.[1] Woodward was president of the Geologists' Association for the years 1873 and 1874, president of the Malacological Society in 1893–1895, president of the Museums Association for the year 1900,[3] and president of the Palaeontographical Society from 1895 (upon the death of incumbent president T. H. Huxley
) to his own death in 1921.
He published a Monograph of the British Fossil Crustacea, Order Merostomata (Palaeontograph. Soc. 1866–1878); A Monograph of Carboniferous Trilobites (Pal. Soc. 1883–1884), and many articles in scientific journals.[2] He was editor of the Geological Magazine from its commencement in 1864 and sole editor from July 1865 until the end of 1918.[1] Woodward's collection of shells, manuscripts and casts of fossil vertebrates can be found in the archives of the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology.[4]
Family
Henry's father,
Geological Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society.[2]
Henry Woodward had two sons, both of whom died before he did; the eldest,
T. H. Huxley alongside H. G. Wells[5] He was a promising zoologist, but was lost at sea when the boat in which he was traveling capsized in Ballinakill harbour.[6] Henry also had five daughters, two of whom - Alice B. Woodward and Gertrude Mary Woodward - worked in biological illustration,[1][7]
although Alice was primarily known for her children's book illustrations.
References
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- ^ a b c One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Woodward, Samuel s.v. Henry Woodward". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 805.
- ^ "WOODWARD, Henry". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1932.
- ^ "Cambridge University Museum of Zoology: Histories & Archives". Retrieved 22 March 2013.
- ^ Experiment in Autobiography. Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain, H. G. Wells, 1934, p. 163
- ^ "Obituary: Martin F. Woodward". The Irish Naturalist. 10: 212. 1901.
- ^ Natural History Museum entry for Gertrude Mary Woodward
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