About Henry Hurd Swinnerton
Lived 1875 – 1966 (aged 90–91). Henry Hurd Swinnerton was a British geologist and paleontologist.
Henry Hurd Swinnerton (1875–1966) was a British geologist. He was professor of geology at University College Nottingham from 1910 to 1946.
Swinnerton was educated at the Royal College of Science, and earned a doctorate in zoology (D.Sc.) from the University of London in July 1902.
In the 1930s Swinnerton was a member of the Fenland Research Committee, contributing valuable knowledge of the geomorphology of the Lincolnshire coast. In 1937 he served as President of the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union; he gave his presidential address on "The Problem of the Lincoln Gap". In 1942 he was awarded the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London.
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British paleontologist (1875–1966)
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Henry Hurd Swinnerton was born in 1875 in Bungay.
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Henry Hurd Swinnerton died in 1966 in Elstree.
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Henry Hurd Swinnerton was a geologist and paleontologist.
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