George William Lamplugh

George William Lamplugh ( born April 8, 1859 in Driffield, † October 9, 1926 ) was a British geologist and geographer.

Life

At first he focused only in his spare time as an amateur with geology and was a successful businessman in Yorkshire.

From 1892 he was invited by Archibald Geikie the Geological Survey of Great Britain, in 1901 where he took over the lead for Ireland and in 1914 served as deputy director for the entire field work.

He dealt with glacial deposits, first in his home country, the port town of Bridlington ( where sea floors have been postponed by the ice), and later in the rest of the UK and abroad, for instance in Canada, Spitsbergen and Alaska. He also dealt with Mesozoic stratigraphy ( Speeton Clay, Lower Cretaceous ) and regional geology of the Isle of Man and Ireland.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1925 he received the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London, which he was president from time to time. The Lamplugh Glacier in Alaska is named after him.