Thomas Neville George

Thomas Neville George FRS^[1] FRSE LLD (13 May 1904 – 18 June 1980) was a British geologist. Awarded the Lyell Medal in 1963.^[2]

Life

Thomas was born in the Morriston district of Swansea the son of Thomas Rupert George, a schoolmaster and ardent socialist, and his wife, Elizabeth Evans, also a teacher.^[3] He was educated at Swansea Municipal Secondary School and Swansea Grammar School. He won a place at the University of Wales graduating BSc in 1924 and MSc in 1926. He then went to Cambridge University to study at postgraduate level gaining a doctorate (PhD) in 1928.^[4]

From 1930 to 1933 he worked as a Geologist for HM Geological Survey. In 1933 he gained a professorship at University College, Swansea, teaching both Geology and Geography. In 1947 Glasgow University gave him a professorship. He stayed in this post until retiral in 1974, serving as Dean of the Faculty of Science 1951 to 1955.^[5]^[6]

In 1948 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir A. E. Trueman, John Weir, Murray MacGregor, Sir Charles Maurice Yonge and Arthur Holmes. He served as Vice President of the Society 1959 to 1961 and won their Neill Prize for the period 1975-77.^[7] In 1963 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London.

The University of Rennes gave him an honorary doctorate (DSc) in 1956. The University of Wales gave him an honorary doctorate (LLD) in 1970.

He died in Glasgow on 18 June 1980.

Publications

South Wales (1970)

Family

In 1932 he married Sarah Hannah Davies. They had no children.

References

↑ Leake, B. E. (1991). "Thomas Neville George. 13 May 1904-18 June 1980". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 37: 198–190. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1991.0010.
↑ http://www.ccgc.gov.uk/landscape--wildlife/geological-gems/geologists-who-changed-the-map/professor-thomas-neville-georg.aspx
↑ http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/roybiogmem/37/198
↑ BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF FORMER FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
↑ BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF FORMER FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
↑ http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH2310&type=P
↑ BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF FORMER FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.

Presidents of the Geological Society of London

19th century	George Bellas Greenough Henry Grey Bennet William Blake John MacCulloch George Bellas Greenough Earl Compton William Babington William Buckland John Bostock William Fitton Adam Sedgwick Roderick Murchison George Bellas Greenough Charles Lyell William Whewell William Buckland Roderick Murchison Henry Warburton Leonard Horner Henry De la Beche Charles Lyell William Hopkins Edward Forbes William Hamilton Daniel Sharpe Joseph Ellison Portlock John Phillips Leonard Horner Andrew Crombie Ramsay William Hamilton Warington Wilkinson Smyth Thomas Henry Huxley Joseph Prestwich George Douglas Campbell John Evans Peter Martin Duncan Henry Clifton Sorby Robert Etheridge John Whitaker Hulke Thomas Bonney John Wesley Judd William Blanford Archibald Geikie Wilfred Hudleston Henry Woodward Henry Hicks William Whitaker

20th century	Jethro Teall Charles Lapworth John Marr Archibald Geikie William Sollas William Watts Aubrey Strahan Arthur Smith Woodward Alfred Harker George Lamplugh Richard Oldham Albert Seward John Evans Francis Bather John Gregory Edmund Garwood Thomas Holland John Green Owen Thomas Jones Henry Hurd Swinnerton Percy Boswell Herbert Leader Hawkins William Fearnsides Arthur Trueman Herbert Harold Read Cecil Tilley Owen Thomas Jones George Lees William King Walter Campbell Smith Leonard Hawkes James Stubblefield Sydney Hollingworth Oliver Bulman Frederick Shotton Kingsley Dunham Thomas Neville George William Alexander Deer Thomas Westoll Percy Kent Wallace Pitcher Percival Allen Howel Francis Janet Watson Charles Holland Bernard Leake Derek Blundell Anthony Harris Charles Curtis R. S. J. Sparks Richard Hardman Robin Cocks

21st century	Ronald Oxburgh Mark Moody-Stuart Peter Styles Richard Fortey Lynne Frostick

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 58083121 ISNI: 0000 0000 6366 2125 SUDOC: 136061214

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