George William Lamplugh Explained

George William Lamplugh (8 April 1859 – 9 October 1926) was a British geologist.^[1] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1905 and won the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society in 1925.^[2] He was awarded the Bigsby Medal in 1901.^[3]

Lamplugh and the Isle of Man

Between 1892 and 1897, Lamplugh made the first official geological map of the Isle of Man under the auspices of the British Geological Survey. His original observations and field maps are kept at the British Geological Survey in Edinburgh. Hand-painted 'clean' copies of his map sheets are housed at the Manx Museum on the Isle of Man.^[4]

External links

• Early Discoverers, L. F. Penny, 1964
• Obituary

Notes and References

1. Web site: George William Lamplugh F.R.S.. British Geological Survey. en. 18 June 2017.
2. Web site: Wollaston Medal Winners. Geological Society of London. 2 February 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100831161342/http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/site/GSL/lang/en/page750.html. 31 August 2010.
3. Web site: Bigsby Medal. Geological Society of London. 8 April 2015.
4. Book: Woodcock, N. H.. In sight of the suture: the paleozoic geology of the Isle of Man in its Iapetus ocean context. 1999. Geological Society of London. 1862390460. 718175402. London. English.