Arthur Elijah Trueman

Arthur Elijah Trueman, KBE, FRS ( born April 26, 1894 in Nottingham, † January 5, 1956 ) was a British geologist.

Life

Trueman was born in Nottingham, the son of Elijah and Tirzah Trueman. He received at the High Pavement School, Nottingham, which he left in 1911 to teach as a student teacher at the Huntington Street School in Nottingham his schooling. In 1912 he enrolled on a scholarship at the College of the University of Nottingham and studied geology at HH Swinnerton. In 1914 he graduated as B.Sc. with distinction from. In 1916 he took the examination for M.Sc, and received his doctorate in 1918. In 1920 he married Florence Kate Offler.

Work

His first job was as a guest lecturer at the College of Cardiff University, where he taught from 1917 to 1920. From 1920 he was a lecturer and head of the Geology Department at the newly founded College, University of Wales, Swansea. In 1930 he was appointed Professor of Geology and Head of the Geography Department. In 1933 he received the Chaning Wills Professor of Geology at the University of Bristol, where he also held the position of Dean of the Faculty of Science for three years. Among his students was, among others, the later Professor Leslie Rowsell Moore, who taught as a recognized paleontologist and palaeobotanist at the University of Sheffield. In 1937 he was appointed to the Geological Department, University of Glasgow, to him in 1946 by his former student Thomas Neville George succeeded.

From 1946 to 1953 he worked in the University Grants Committee, which was responsible for the promotion of training in the UK. Between 1945 and 1947 he was President of the Geological Society of London. Trueman was also Chairman of the Committee for the Geologieunterrricht in schools, organized by the British Association belonged, the place of the Chairperson of the geological department of the Bristol Naturalists Society has held, and was chairman of the Glasgow Geological Society. He was raised in 1951 as a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the peerage.

Honors and Awards

He was appointed by the Universities of Glasgow, Rhodes, Wales and Leeds honorary doctorate.

Works

• An Introduction to Geology. London. Thos. Murby & Co, 1938.
• The Scenery of England and Wales. Gollancz, London, 1938.