Henry George Albert Hickling

Henry George Albert Hickling FRS (5 April 1883 – 26 July 1954) was a British geologist and palaeontologist, who worked on fossil reptile footprints, the structures of fossil plants, coals and the Old Red Sandstone. He was awarded the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London in 1934, and elected to the Royal Society in 1936.

Life and works Hickling, who was known as George, was born and brought up in Nottingham until the age of sixteen. He then lived in Arbroath for three years, where he developed his interest in geology. In 1920, Hickling was appointed to the chair of geology at Armstrong College, which later became King's College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He retired in 1948, and was succeeded by Thomas Stanley Westoll.

At various times during his career, Hickling served on a number of academic and other committees, including the council of the Geological Society of London; as chair of the management committee of the Hancock museum in Newcastle; and as president of the geology section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Geiler died in 1952. They had one son and two daughters. Hickling married Grace Watt, a naturalist and ornithologist shortly before he died in 1954.