Henry Benedict Medlicott

Henry Benedict Medlicott ( born August 3, 1829 in Loughrea, County Galway, Ireland, † April 6, 1905 ) was an Irish geologist who worked in India.

Education

Henry Benedict Medlicott was the son of Samuel Medlicott (1796-1858), Rector of the Church of Ireland in Loughrea, and his wife Charlotte (ca. 1814-1884 ), daughter of Henry Benedict Dolphin. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin as well as in France and Guernsey and received a BA in 1850 with honorary diploma from the School of Civil Engineering and in 1870 the MA. He spoke fluent French and was familiar with the work of the French geologists.

Career and later life

In 1851 he joined the Geological Survey of Ireland in 1853 the British Geological Survey. He first worked with William Talbot Aveline in Wiltshire, but was later recruited by Dr. Thomas Oldham for the Indian Geological Survey and worked in the Rajmahal Hills near Bhagalpur. In August 1854, he left England and was a professor of geology at the University of Roorkee, where he remained until October 1862. During his time in Roorkee, he conducted research in parts of the Narmadatals and in Bundelkhand ( 1854/55 and 1856/57 ), worked on the study of the geology of the Middle Himalayas and the Siwalik Beds, a fossil -bearing rock layer in the Siwaliks. In 1857, he served as a volunteer in the garrison of Roorkee against the rebels of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, and was due to his merits, the Indian Mutiny Medal.

On October 27, 1857, he married Louisa Maunsell in Landour, with had three daughters and three sons. Louisa was the daughter of Reverend Daniel Henry Maunsell, curate in Balbriggan, County Dublin.

Together with his brother JG Medlicott, he examined the Cambrian of Vindhyagebirges and could work out the differences from the Cambrian of Gondwana. Later he worked in various areas of India, such as in South Rewa, Bihar, Assam, in the Khasibergen, Rajputana, Kashmir, the Satpura ranges and the Garo Hills. On April 1, 1876, he was succeeded by Dr. Oldham as head of the Department of Geology, his employment was Calcutta. 1885 associated with the site title of superintendent was changed to Director.

In 1877 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS ) - even if he never took his rightful title in all correspondence - and in 1888 awarded the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London. He was a Fellow of Calcutta University and 1879-1881 President of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.

He wrote in 1879, the Manual of the Geology of India (Manual of Geology of India) along with William Thomas Blanford and was co-editor of paleontological journal Paleontologica Indica.