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Irish geologist and stratigrapher
Edward Hull
FRS (21 May 1829 – 18 October 1917) was an Irish
geologist and
stratigrapher who held the position of Director of the
Geological Survey of Ireland .
[1]
[2] He was also a professor of geology in the
Royal College of Science ,
Dublin . His dates are listed in the
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography .
Biography
He was born in
Antrim ,
Ireland , the eldest son of the Reverend J.D. Hull. He graduated B.A. from
Trinity College, Dublin .
He joined the Geological Survey of Ireland and worked in Wales and on the
Lancashire Coalfield . He worked for the Geological Survey of Scotland (1867-1868) and led an expedition to survey parts of Arabia Petraea and Palestine (1883). He became Director of the Irish branch of the Survey and retired in 1891. He was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1867.
[3] He was President of the
Royal Geological Society of Ireland in 1873.
[4]
His daughter
Charlotte Ferguson-Davie became a noted physician. He died at his home in
Notting Hill , London, aged 88.
[1] Edward Hull's obituarist wrote of him, "He maintained the honour of a gentleman."
[5]
Works
The geology of the country around Wigan , Memoirs / Geological Survey. England and Wales ;no. 89 S.W., H.M.S.O., London, 1860
The geology of the country around Prescot, Lancashire (2nd ed.), H.M.S.O., 1865
The Triassic and Permian rocks of the midland counties of England , [Gt. Brit. Geological survey] Memoirs of the Geological survey, England and Wales, H.M.S.O., London, 1869
The Physical Geology and Geography of Ireland , Edward Stranforth, London, 1878 ; (revised, 2nd edition, 1891)
The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoir on the Physical Geology and Geography of Arabia Petraea .
Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund . 1886.
Volcanoes: Past and Present . The contemporary science series. London: Walter Scott, Ltd. 1892.
The Wallchart of World History ; This book has been updated in the late 20th century and 21st century.
The Coal-fields of Great Britain: Their History, Structure and Resources , E. Stanford, 1861
Geology of Belfast and the Lagan Valley: (One-Inch Geological Sheet 36) - with H. E. Wilson , Manning, P. I. , and James Andrew Robbie.
Reminiscences of a Strenuous Life (autobiography), 1909 ,
2nd edition, 1910
Family
Hull married in 1857 Mary Catherine Henrietta Cooke, daughter of Charles Turner Cooke, a surgeon in
Cheltenham and his wife Catherine Bennett Cooke. They had a family of two sons and four daughters, who included
Eleanor Hull and
Charlotte Elizabeth Ferguson-Davie .
[6]
[7]
[8] Another daughter, Alice, married in 1896 John Hill Twigg (1841–1917) of the Indian Civil Service.
[9]
[10]
Coat of arms of Edward Hull
Notes
6 June 1901
[11]
Crest
On a wreath of the colours a talbot's head erased Argent gorged with a collar dancettee Erminois between two laurel branches Proper.
Escutcheon
Sable a chevron engrailed Erminois between three talbots' heads erased Argent.
Motto
Vi Et Virtute
Notes
^
a
b
"Death of Professor Edward Hull" . Northern Whig . 23 October 1917. p. 5. Retrieved 4 March 2019 .
^
"History of Science: Nature (February 3, 1870)" . Retrieved 16 September 2006 .
^
"Library and Archive Catalogue" . Royal Society. Retrieved 23 November 2010 . [
permanent dead link ]
^
"Hull, Professor Edward" . Who's Who . Vol. 59. 1907. pp. 892–893.
^
Cambridge journals: where this text is recorded Geological Magazine , n.s. decade 6, IV (1917), 553-5, at page 555.
^ Davies, Gordon L. Herries. "Hull, Edward".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/53969 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
^
The Medical Times and Gazette0: A Journal of Medical Science, Literature, Criticism, and News . 1875. p. 244.
^ Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed & Official Classes . Kelly's Directories. 1912. p. 1548.
^ Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1929–30). Armorial Families . Vol. 2 (7th ed.). London: Hurst & Blackett. p. 1978.
^ Jevons, William Stanley (24 November 1977).
Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons: Volume V Correspondence, 1879–1882 . Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 50.
ISBN
9781349030941 . Retrieved 22 November 2017 .
^
"Grants and Confirmations of Arms Vol. J" . National Library of Ireland. 8 January 1898. p. 203. Retrieved 19 November 2022 .
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