Lewis Leigh Fermor

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Lewis Leigh Fermor
Born(1880-09-18)18 September 1880
Died24 May 1954(1954-05-24) (aged 73)
ChildrenPatrick Leigh Fermor
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsGeology

Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor, OBE, FRS (18 September 1880 – 24 May 1954), was a British chemist and geologist and the first president of the Indian National Science Academy and a director of the Geological Survey of India (1930-1935). His son was the writer and traveller Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor.[2][3]

Early life

Fermor was born in

London University.[6]

Career

Fermor was initially interested in continuing a career in metallurgy but was persuaded to apply to the Geological Survey of India by his professor,

Indian Railway Board
and then the Indian Munitions Board during the First World War.

In 1921 he was awarded the

Asiatic Society of Bengal from 1933 to 1936, and the first elected president of the National Institute of Sciences of India in 1935. After retiring as director of the Geological Survey of India in 1935, he continued to live and work mainly in India until 1939, also visiting Kenya and South Africa. He continued to contribute to learned societies, and also worked as a geological consultant for private businesses. He was president of the Bristol Naturalists' Society in 1945, and vice-president of the Geological Society of London
from 1945 to 1947.

Private life

Fermor married Muriel Eileen (or Aeyleen) Ambler, ten years his junior, in 1909. Her grandfather was

Napoléon I surrendered to it.[9] Their son, Patrick Leigh Fermor
(1915–2011), was raised and educated in England and did not visit his father in India; he later became well known for his travel writing. After he separated from his first wife, he married Frances Mary Case in 1933.

He died in Horsell near Woking in Surrey, survived by his second wife, and his son and daughter from his first marriage.

References

  1. ^
    S2CID 74737206
    .
  2. ^ "Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor obituary from Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences". Patrickleighfermor.wordpress.com. 30 April 2010. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  3. ^ "Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor". Patrickleighfermor.wordpress.com. 19 September 2010. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  4. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  5. ^ a b Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure, Artemis Cooper, John Murray, 2012
  6. ^ Henry Crookshank, 'Fermor, Sir Lewis Leigh (1880–1954)', rev. Andrew Grout, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 26 April 2013
  7. ^ Fermor, L. L. (1906). "Manganese in India" (PDF). Transactions of the Mining and Geological Institute of India. 1: 69–131.
  8. ^ "Fermorite mineral information and data". mindat.org. 25 March 2013. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  9. ^ "Charles Taafe Ambler, writing about his father, James Ambler". Genealogy.com. Archived from the original on 1 March 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2013.

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