Charles Thomas Clough

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Charles Thomas Clough (born December 23, 1852 in Huddersfield , † August 27, 1916 in Edinburgh ) was a British geologist.

Charles Thomas Clough, son of attorney Thomas William Clough, attended rugby school from 1867 to 1871 and studied science at St John's College , Cambridge from 1871 to 1875 . From 1875 he worked for the Geological Survey , initially as an assistant geologist. First he worked in the north of England. In 1884 he was transferred to Scotland, where he was known for his work in the north-west Highlands and the Hebrides. In 1896 he was promoted to geologist and in 1902 to district geologist.

In 1906 the Geological Society of London awarded him the Murchison Medal .

On August 24, 1916, while examining stones in a narrow railway cut in West Lothian , Clough was struck by a railroad and died of his injuries three days later. Shortly before his death on March 6, 1916, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .

The Edinburgh Geological Society awards him the Clough Medal annually and the Clough Memorial Award every two years .

Publications

  • The Economic Geology of the Central Coalfield of Scotland ; 1917; with Lionel Wordsworth Hinxman, Colin Bassett Crampton, Ernst M. Anderson from the Geological Survey of Great Britain
  • The Geology of the Neighborhood of Edinburgh. Second edition
  • The Geology of East Lothian, including parts of the Counties of Edinburgh and Berwick
  • The Geology of Glenelg, Lochalsh, and South-East part of Skye

literature

  • David Land: Charles Thomas Clough ; In: The Edinburgh Geologist - Issue no 28; December 1995 ( table of contents )
  • David Roger Oldroyd: Earth, Water, Ice and Fire. Two Hundred Years of Geological Research in the English Lake District . Geological Society, London 2002, ISBN 1-86239-107-6 ( GBS )
  • AL Harris: Clough, Charles Thomas (1852–1916) (rev.) In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 ( doi: 10.1093 / ref: odnb / 37294 )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed October 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ http://www.edinburghgeolsoc.org/s_awards.html
personal data
SURNAME Clough, Charles Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British geologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Huddersfield
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1916
Place of death Edinburgh