Charles Edward Fox-Strangways
Charles Edward Fox-Strangways (born February 13, 1844 in Rewe (Devon) near Exeter , † March 5, 1910 ) was a British geologist who mapped for the Geological Survey mainly in Yorkshire .
Life
He was the son of the clergyman and rector of Rewe Henry Fox-Strangways (a grandson of the 1st Earl of Ilchester ), attended Eton College and studied mineralogy, chemistry and physics in particular at the University of Göttingen , where he fought the Hanoverians in 1866 and experienced Prussia. From 1867 he was an assistant geologist in the Geological Survey of Great Britain. From 1879 he received the rank of geologist and from 1901 he was district geologist.
First he mapped west of Yorkshire near Todmorden and Halifax (West Yorkshire) (in the Carboniferous ), then near Bradford and Ingleton , in the north of the coalfield. He then moved east to Harrogate , across the Vale of York into the Mesozoic ( Jurassic , Cretaceous ) layers of the Eastern Moorelands and Wolds to the north of Lincolnshire . His headquarters were in Scarborough . From 1889 he was in the Midlands and worked the coal field around Leicester , where he had his residence. His treatise on the Yorkshire Jurassic was published in 1892, and he was most recently involved in the compilation of the Yorkshire Geology Bibliography published by the Yorkshire Geological Society after his death in 1915.
He was a fellow of the Geological Society of London .
literature
- GW Lamplugh, obituary in: Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 17, 1910, pp. 156-158.
Web links
References and comments
- ^ The Jurassic Rocks of Britain, Vol. 1 Yorkshire, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, HMSO, London 1892
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Fox-Strangways, Charles Edward |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rewe (Devon) |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 5, 1910 |