Aubrey Strahan

Sir Aubrey Strahan ( born April 20, 1852 † March 4, 1928 ) was a British geologist.

Strahan went to Eton to school and studied at the University of Cambridge at St. John's College, where in 1874 the Tripos examinations consisted in the natural sciences. He was from 1875 with the Geological Survey of Great Britain, the Assistant Director for England and Wales, it was from 1909 and whose director he was later. In 1920 he went into retirement.

He mapped mainly in Northern England and Wales, where his work resulted in the South Wales coal fields also for inclusion in the Royal Commission of Coal Supplies and relevant publications ( for example, Presidential Address to the British Association 1904). He also dealt with the erosion of British rivers (Publications of the Geographical Journal from 1908 to 1911, The investigation of rivers ).

In 1919 he received the Wollaston medal. He was KBE, especially for publications on British mineral deposits in the First World War. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1903 and 1912 to 1914 was president of the Geological Society of London.