Aubrey Strahan
Sir Aubrey Strahan ( April 20, 1852 - March 4, 1928 ) was a British geologist.
Strahan went to school in Eton and studied at Cambridge University at St. John's College, where he passed the Tripos exams in science in 1874. He was from 1875 at the Geological Survey of Great Britain, whose Assistant Director for England and Wales he was from 1909 and whose director he later became. In 1920 he retired.
He mapped mainly in northern England and Wales, with his work in the southern Welsh coal regions also leading to admission to the Royal Commission of Coal Supplies and to corresponding publications (for example Presidential Address of the British Association 1904). He also dealt with the erosion of British rivers (publications in the Geographical Journal 1908 to 1911, The investigation of rivers).
In 1919 he received the Wollaston Medal . He was KBE , particularly for publications on British mineral deposits during World War I. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1903 and was President of the Geological Society of London from 1912 to 1914 .
Web links
- Obituary, pdf
- Literature by and about Aubrey Strahan in the WorldCat bibliographic database
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| SURNAME | Strahan, Aubrey |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1852 |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 4, 1928 |