Samuel Pickworth Woodward

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Samuel Pickworth Woodward

Samuel Pickworth Woodward (born September 17, 1821 in Norwich , † July 11, 1865 in Herne Bay , Kent ) was a British geologist.

He was the son of Norwich naturalist and amateur geologist Samuel Woodward and brother of Henry Woodward and Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward . Woodward was from 1839 assistant curator of the Geological Society of London before he became professor of geology and natural history at the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester in 1845 . From 1848 until his death he was first class assistant in the geology and mineralogy department of the British Museum .

His son Horace Bolingbroke Woodward was a well-known geologist.

The mineral woodwardite is named after him.

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  1. Woodwardit at mindat