About Horace Bolingbroke Woodward
Lived 1848 – 1914 (aged 65). Horace Bolingbroke Woodward was a British geologist.
Horace Bolingbroke Woodward , (20 August 1848 – 6 February 1914) was a British geologist who participated in the Geological Survey of England and Wales from 1867 until his retirement in 1908. He was vice-president of the Geological Society, where he was elected a Fellow in 1868; elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1896, awarded the Murchison Medal in 1897, and the Wollaston Medal in 1909.
He was second son of geologist Samuel Pickworth Woodward, himself second son of geologist and antiquary Samuel Woodward. His brother was malacologist Bernard Barham Woodward.
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British geologist (1848–1914)
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Horace Bolingbroke Woodward was born on 20 August 1848 in London.
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Horace Bolingbroke Woodward died on 6 February 1914 in Croydon.
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Horace Bolingbroke Woodward was a geologist.
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Horace Bolingbroke Woodward was British.
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