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British geologist
Thomas Neville George
FRS
[1]
FRSE
LLD (13 May 1904 ? 18 June 1980) was a Welsh geologist. He was president of the
Geological Society of London
.
Life
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Thomas Neville George was born in the
Morriston
district of
Swansea
, the son of Thomas Rupert George, a schoolmaster and ardent socialist, and his wife, Elizabeth Evans, also a teacher.
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He was educated at Swansea Municipal Secondary School and
Swansea Grammar School
. He won a place at the
University of Wales
graduating BSc in 1924 and MSc in 1926. He then went to
Cambridge University
to study at postgraduate level gaining a doctorate (PhD) in 1928.
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From 1930 to 1933 he worked as a geologist for
HM Geological Survey
. In 1933 he gained a professorship at
University College, Swansea
, teaching both Geology and Geography. In 1947
Glasgow University
gave him a professorship. He stayed in this post until retiral in 1974, serving as Dean of the Faculty of Science 1951 to 1955.
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In 1948 he was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh
. His proposers were Sir
A. E. Trueman
, John Weir,
Murray MacGregor
, Sir
Charles Maurice Yonge
and
Arthur Holmes
. He served as Vice President of the Society 1959 to 1961 and won their
Neill Prize
for the period 1975-77.
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In 1963 he was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society of London
and in the same year was awarded the
Lyell Medal
by the
Geological Society of London
.
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The University of
Rennes
gave him an honorary doctorate (DSc) in 1956. The University of Wales gave him an honorary doctorate (LLD) in 1970.
George was president of the Geological Society of London from 1968 to 1970.
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He died in
Glasgow
on 18 June 1980.
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Family
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In 1932 he married Sarah Hannah Davies. They had no children.
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