Thomas George Bonney
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Thomas George Bonney Template:Post-nominals (27 July 1833 – 10 December 1923) was an English geologist, president of the Geological Society of London.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Career
Bonney was born in Rugeley, Staffordshire, England, the eldest son of the Reverend Thomas Bonney, headmaster of Rugeley Grammar School.<ref name=acad/> His uncle was the Australian explorer Charles Bonney, and one of his brothers, Frederic Bonney, is remembered for his photography and ethnology in Australia.<ref> Template:Cite web</ref> Thomas was educated at Uppingham School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated as 12th wrangler in 1856, and was ordained in the following year.<ref name=acad>Template:Acad</ref>
From 1856 to 1861 he was mathematical master at Westminster School, and he pursued geology only as a recreational activity, mainly in Alpine regions. In 1868 he was appointed tutor at St John's College, Cambridge and lecturer in geology. His attention was specially directed to the study of the igneous and metamorphic rocks in Alpine regions and in various parts of England (e.g.: the Lizard in Cornwall, at Salcombe and in the Charnwood Forest), Wales and the Scottish Highlands.
From 1877 to 1901 he was professor of geology in University College London. He became secretary and later president of the Geological Society of London (1884–1886), and also a fellow; secretary of the British Association (1881–1885) and its president<ref>Presidential Address to the British Association Meeting, held at Sheffield in 1910</ref> for the year 1910–1911; president of the Mineralogical Society. He was president of the Alpine Club, 1881–1883. In 1887, Bonney was appointed honorary canon of Manchester.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 6 June 1878.<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Dead link</ref> He died in Cambridge on 10 December 1923. Lake Bonney in Antarctica is named after him.
Publications
His purely scientific works are:
- Cambridgeshire Geology (1875)
- The Story of our Planet (1893)
- Charles Lyell and Modern Geology (1895)
- Ice Work, Past and Present (1896)
- Volcanoes (1899).
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In addition to many papers published in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society and Geological Magazine, he wrote several popular works on Alpine Regions, on English and Welsh scenery, as well as on theological subjects.
See also
References
- David Oldroyd, 'Bonney, Thomas George (1833–1923)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
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- 1833 births
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- People from Rugeley
- English mountain climbers
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- People educated at Uppingham School
- Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
- People educated at Westminster School, London
- Presidents of the Alpine Club (UK)
- Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge
- Fellows of the Geological Society of London
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Wollaston Medal winners
- Presidents of the Geological Society of London