Charles Hepworth Holland

Holland was born in Southport and attended Southport Technical College. His initial study of physics and mathematics at University of Liverpool was interrupted by World War II. Influenced by a cousin, he subsequently studied geology at the University of Manchester. Remaining to do postgraduate research, he began work on the Ordovician of the Bala area and then the Silurian of Ludlow.

At Manchester he formed the Ludlow Research Group (LRG) with Jim Lawson and Vic Walmsley. This led to the publication of A revised classification of the Ludlovian succession at Ludlow in 1959.{{cite journal|last=Holland|first=C.H. |author2=Lawson, J.D. |author3=Walmsley, V.G.|year=1959|title=A revised classification of the Ludlovian succession at Ludlow|journal=Nature|volume=184|pages=1037–1039|doi=10.1038/1841037a0|issue=4692|bibcode=1959Natur.184.1037H |s2cid=4255718 }}

After a period as assistant lecturer at Manchester Holland moved to Bedford College as lecturer and subsequently senior lecturer. In 1966 he was appointed professor of Geology and Mineralogy at Trinity College Dublin, a post which he held until retirement in 1993.{{cite book |title=Charles Hepworth Holland – Palaeontologist and Stratigrapher |author=Patrick N. Wyes Jackson |editor1=Patrick N. Wyes Jackson |editor2=Matthew A. Parkes |editor3=Rachel Wood |editor4=Charles Hepworth Holland |work=Special Papers in Palaeontology |pages=5–13 |year=2002 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aZSijV8EHFEC&pg=PA5 |volume=67 |publisher=Palaeontological Association |isbn=978-0-901702-77-7}}

He was president of the Geological Society, 1984–86.{{cite web|title=Past Presidents |publisher=Geological Society |url=http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/society/history/page759.html |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217112812/http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/society/history/page759.html |archivedate=17 February 2012 }} In 2008 the Palaeontological Association awarded him the Lapworth Medal.{{cite web|title=Fellow Emeritus Dr Charles Holland Awarded Lapworth Medal in Palaeontology|publisher=Trinity College Dublin|url=http://www.tcd.ie/Communications/news/news.php?headerID=1087&vs_date=2009-1-1|date=16 January 2009|accessdate=2009-08-17|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607040304/http://www.tcd.ie/Communications/news/news.php?headerID=1087&vs_date=2009-1-1|archivedate=7 June 2011}} He has written over 150 scientific articles and three books.

• The Idea of Time, 1999, WileyBlackwell, {{ISBN|0-471-98545-7}}
• The Irish Landscape: A Scenery to Celebrate, Edinburgh: Dunedin Academic Press, 2003, {{ISBN|1-903765-20-X}}
• The Geology of Ireland, Charles H. Holland and Ian S. Sanders (eds), (1st Ed. 1981), 2nd Ed. 2009, Edinburgh: Dunedin Academic Press, {{ISBN|978-1-903765-71-5}}

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