Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston

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Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston , b. Simpson , also Wilfrid Hudleston Hudleston (born June 2, 1828 in York , † January 29, 1909 in West Holme , Dorset ) was a British geologist .

Life

Wilfred Hudleston was the eldest son of Doctor John Simpson and Elizabeth Ward, daughter of Thomas Ward and Eleanor Hudleston. The Simpson family took the name Hudleston in 1867. He received his education first at St. Peter's School in York , then moved to Uppingham and finally to St. John's College in Cambridge , where he received a BA in 1850 and an MA in 1853 .

Hudleston was a trained amateur geologist all his life, as he did not have to pursue a regular job due to the family fortune. During his studies he first turned to ornithology and made several extensive study trips, for example to Lapland, Algeria, Greece and Turkey. From 1862 to 1867 he studied natural history and chemistry at the University of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Chemistry in London. Among other things, he heard geology from Adam Sedgwick in Cambridge , but was initially undecided whether he should devote his scientific goals to chemistry or geology. His choice of geology came from his collaboration with paleontologist John Morris from University College London .

Hudleston lived in London but spent part of the year on his estates in Dorset and Yorkshire . Since 1880 he was married to Rose Heywood Benson of Littlethorpe. As a wealthy man he was able to finance his geological research himself and was known, among other things, for his collection of minerals and fossils , which he kept in his house in South Kensington . Although he was primarily interested in paleontology, he also participated in general geological discussions such as the controversy over the geological nature of the Scottish Highlands , published papers on issues relating to the geology of Africa, India and Syria, and devoted himself to summarizing and presenting more recent Research results in review articles. In total, he published more than 60 scientific papers.

In addition to his research, he took an active part in the geological social life of London. From 1881 to 1883 he took over the presidency of the Geologists' Association , after he had already been secretary of the Association from 1874 to 1876, which formed a gathering point for amateur geologists. In 1884 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society . He was Secretary of the Geological Society of London from 1886 to 1890 and President of the Geological Society of London from 1892 to 1894, and received the Society's Wollaston Medal in 1897. In 1906 he donated the new Dove Marine Laboratory in Cullercoats , Northumberland , now part of the 1908 University of Newcastle after the original building was destroyed in a fire in 1904.

Works

  • The Yorkshire Oolites. Part I. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 1874
  • The Yorkshire Oolites. Part II. The Middle Oolites: Introduction and Section I. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 1876
  • On deep-sea investigation & c. 1881
  • Contributions to the Palæontology of the Yorkshire Oolites. Geological Magazine, Vol. 1, pp. 49-63, 1884
  • First impressions of Assynt. Geological Magazine, Vol. 9, pp. 390-399, 1882
  • Fossil shells from S. Australia. & New trilobites from South Australia. In: Henry Woodward : Wing of a neuropterous insect from Australia. London: Trubner & Co. 1884
  • British Jurassic Gasteropoda. Printed for the Palaeontographical society, 1887-1896
  • On the Eastern Margin of the North Atlantic Basin. Geological Magazine, Vol. 6, pp. 146-157. 1899

literature

  • Sir Leslie Stephen: Hudleston (formerly Simpson), Wilfred Hudleston . In: Dictionary of National Biography . tape 17 , ISBN 1-4021-7063-7 ( p. 313 in the Google book search).
  • David Roger Oldroyd: The Highlands controversy: constructing geological knowledge through fieldwork in nineteenth-century Britain . University of Chicago Press, 1990, ISBN 0-226-62635-0 , pp. 178, 199 ( p. 178 in Google Book Search).
  • Wilfrid H. Hudleston, JP, MA, FRS, FLS, FGS, FCS, etc. In: Geological Magazine (Decade V) . Vol. 6, 1909, pp. 143-144 , doi : 10.1017 / S0016756800120680 .
  • Scientific Notes and News . In: Science . Vol. 29, No. 738 , 1909, pp. 292-295 .
  • RJ Cleevely: Hudleston, Wilfrid Hudleston (1828-1909). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Volume 28: Hooppell – Hutcheson. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861378-4 , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), As of 2004, accessed October 3, 2012.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b G. L. Herries Davies: Whatever is under the earth. The Geological Society of London 1807-2007 . Ed .: Geological Society. 2007, ISBN 1-86239-214-5 ( p. 152 in the Google book search).
  2. ^ A b Sir Leslie Stephen: Hudleston (formerly Simpson), Wilfred Hudleston . In: Dictionary of National Biography . tape 17 , ISBN 1-4021-7063-7 ( p. 313 in the Google book search).
  3. ^ Dove Marine Laboratory Cullercoats. Retrieved August 26, 2010 .

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personal data
SURNAME Hudleston, Wilfred Hudleston
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Simpson, Wilfred Hudleston (maiden name); Hudleston, Wilfrid Hudleston
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British geologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH York
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1909
Place of death West Holme , Dorset