William Whitehead Watts
Prof William Whitehead Watts
Life
He was born near Broseley in Shropshire, the eldest of two sons of Isaac Watts,[3] not the hymnwriter of that name but a music master, and his wife, Maria Whitehead, daughter of a farmer.[4]
He was educated at Bitterley and Shifnal Grammar Schools then went to Denstone College.[1] He then studied Sciences at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, becoming a fellow in 1888–94; he gained first class honours in geology in 1881, graduated BA in 1882 and MA in 1885, and became ScD in 1909.[3] He lectured for the Cambridge University Extension Scheme for ten years.[3] He began to study the geology of Shropshire and his first paper on the subject was published in 1885.
He worked with
He taught geology at the
Professor Watts was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1904.[1]
In 1910 he succeeded William Johnson Sollas as President of the Geological Society of London. He was succeeded in turn in 1912 by Aubrey Strahan.
He won the
He retired in 1930 and died on 30 July 1947 aged 87.
Publications
He edited British Geological Photographs
- Geology for Beginners (1898)
- Shropshire, the Geography of the County (1919)
- Geology of the Ancient Rocks of Charnwood Forest (1947)
Family
He married twice, firstly in 1891 to Louisa Adelaide Atchison, who died in 1894, then he married Rachel Atchison (nee Rodgers) the widowed sister-in-law of his first wife.
References
- ^ S2CID 121724039.
- S2CID 131359303.
- ^ a b c "Watts, William Whitehead (WTS87WW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. Archived from the original(PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
- New International Encyclopedia
Further reading
- "Professor W. W. Watts, ScD., LL.D., F.R.S." in The Denstonian; July 1927, pp. 84–86
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