Edward Hull (geologist)
{{Short description|Irish geologist and stratigrapher}}
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Edward Hull {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRS}} (21 May 1829 – 18 October 1917) was an Irish geologist and stratigrapher who held the position of Director of the Geological Survey of Ireland.{{cite news |title=Death of Professor Edward Hull|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000434/19171023/166/0005 |access-date=4 March 2019 |work=Northern Whig |date=23 October 1917 |page=5 |url-access=subscription }}{{cite web|url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/HistSciTech/HistSciTech-idx?type=div&did=HISTSCITECH.0012.0053.0011&isize=text|title=History of Science: Nature (February 3, 1870)|access-date=16 September 2006}} He was also a professor of geology in the Royal College of Science, Dublin. His dates are listed in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Biography
He was born in Antrim, Ireland, the eldest son of the Reverend J.D. Hull. He graduated B.A. from Trinity College, Dublin.
He joined the Geological Survey of Ireland and worked in Wales and on the Lancashire Coalfield. He worked for the Geological Survey of Scotland (1867-1868) and led an expedition to survey parts of Arabia Petraea and Palestine (1883). He became Director of the Irish branch of the Survey and retired in 1891. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1867.{{cite web| url= http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27hull%27%29| title= Library and Archive Catalogue| publisher= Royal Society| access-date= 23 November 2010}}{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} He was President of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland in 1873.{{cite magazine|title=Hull, Professor Edward|magazine=Who's Who|year=1907|volume= 59|pages=892–893|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yEcuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA892}}
His daughter Charlotte Ferguson-Davie became a noted physician. He died at his home in Notting Hill, London, aged 88. Edward Hull's obituarist wrote of him, "He maintained the honour of a gentleman."[http://journals.cambridge.org/ Cambridge journals: where this text is recorded] Geological Magazine, n.s. decade 6, IV (1917), 553-5, at page 555.
Works
- {{citation | url = https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100629606 |title = The geology of the country around Wigan |series = Memoirs / Geological Survey. England and Wales; no. 89 S.W. | publisher = H.M.S.O., London | year = 1860 }}
- {{citation | url =https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100589627 |title = The geology of the country around Prescot, Lancashire|edition = 2nd | publisher = H.M.S.O. | year = 1865 }}
- {{citation | url =https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001039111 |title = The Triassic and Permian rocks of the midland counties of England |series = [Gt. Brit. Geological survey] Memoirs of the Geological survey, England and Wales | publisher = H.M.S.O., London | year = 1869 }}
- {{citation | url =https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001039193 | title = The Physical Geology and Geography of Ireland | publisher = Edward Stranforth, London| year = 1878}}; (revised, 2nd edition, 1891)
- {{cite book|year=1886|url= https://archive.org/details/surveywesternpa00hullgoog |title=The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoir on the Physical Geology and Geography of Arabia Petraea |publisher=Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund}}
- {{cite book|year=1892|title=Volcanoes: Past and Present|series=The contemporary science series |location=London|publisher=Walter Scott, Ltd|url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006175838}}
- {{citation | title = The Wallchart of World History }}; This book has been updated in the late 20th century and 21st century.
- {{citation | url = https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008632543 |title = The Coal-fields of Great Britain: Their History, Structure and Resources | year = 1861 |publisher = E. Stanford }}
- {{citation | title = Geology of Belfast and the Lagan Valley: (One-Inch Geological Sheet 36) }} - with H. E. Wilson, Manning, P. I., and James Andrew Robbie.
- {{citation | title = Reminiscences of a Strenuous Life | year = 1909 | type = autobiography}}, [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011812228 2nd edition, 1910]
- (review) {{cite journal|title=Review of Reminiscences of a Strenuous Life by Edward Hull|journal=Nature|volume=83|issue=2118|pages=395–396|date=2 June 1910|doi=10.1038/083395b0|s2cid=3991838|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x001485675;view=1up;seq=405|hdl=2027/inu.39000025091393|hdl-access=free}}
Family
Hull married in 1857 Mary Catherine Henrietta Cooke, daughter of Charles Turner Cooke, a surgeon in Cheltenham and his wife Catherine Bennett Cooke. They had a family of two sons and four daughters, who included Eleanor Hull and Charlotte Elizabeth Ferguson-Davie.{{cite ODNB|id=53969|first=Gordon L. Herries|last=Davies|title=Hull, Edward}}{{cite book|title=The Medical Times and Gazette0: A Journal of Medical Science, Literature, Criticism, and News|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DG1nAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA244|year=1875|page=244}}{{cite book|title=Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed & Official Classes|year=1912|publisher=Kelly's Directories.|page=1548}} Another daughter, Alice, married in 1896 John Hill Twigg (1841–1917) of the Indian Civil Service.{{cite book|last=Fox-Davies|first=Arthur Charles|title=Armorial Families|edition=7th|year=1929–30|publisher=Hurst & Blackett|location=London|page=1978|volume=2}}{{cite book|last=Jevons|first=William Stanley|title=Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons: Volume V Correspondence, 1879–1882|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rdewCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA50|access-date=22 November 2017|date=24 November 1977|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|isbn=9781349030941|page=50}}
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External links
- {{Gutenberg author |id=35366| name=Edward Hull}}
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Edward Hull |birth=1829 |death=1917}}
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Category:People from Antrim, County Antrim
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