Horace Bolingbroke Woodward Explained

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,^[1] awarded the Murchison Medal in 1897, and the Wollaston Medal in 1909.

He was second son^[2] of geologist Samuel Pickworth Woodward, himself second son of geologist and antiquary Samuel Woodward. His brother was malacologist Bernard Barham Woodward.

Selected works

• Book: Woodward, Horace B . The Geology of England and Wales . 1876 . London . Longman Green & Co . Hathi Trust .
• Book: Woodward, Horace B . The Jurassic Rocks of Britain . 3 . 1893 . The Lias of England and Wales (Yorkshire excepted) . London . . Hathi Trust . Memoirs of the Geological survey of the United Kingdom .
• Book: Woodward, Horace B . The History of the Geological Society of London . 1907 . London . Geological Society of London .
• Book: Woodward, Horace B . The Geology of Water-Supply . 1910 . London . Edward Arnold . Hathi Trust . Arnold's geological series .
• Book: Woodward, Horace B . History of Geology . 1911 . New York . G P Putnam's sons .

Notes and References

1. Obituary. Horace B. Woodward. Geological Magazine. 1914. 51. 142–144. 10.1017/s0016756800138282. free. 20 February 2016. 5 February 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230205203057/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101075889988;view=1up;seq=174. live . Hathi Trust.
2. Book: Woodward, Horace Bolingbroke . Who's Who . 1905 . 57 . 1771–1772 . Google Books . Addison . Henry Robert . Oakes . Charles Henry . Lawson . William John . Sladen . Douglas Brooke Wheelton .