Henry Woodward (geologist)

Henry Bolingbroke Woodward (* November 24, 1832 in Norwich, † September 6, 1921 in Bushey, Hertfordshire ) was a British geologist and paleontologist.

Life and work

His father Samuel Woodward (1790-1838) was a distinguished amateur geologist who was a bank clerk in Norwich and has published over historical ( antiquarian ) issues and the geology of Norfolk. One of the brothers of Henry Woodward was the librarian of Windsor Castle and historian Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward ( 1816-1869 ).

Woodward 1858 assistant in the Department of Geology at the British Museum, where even his brother Samuel Pickworth Woodward worked, and managed from 1880 to 1901 the department as Chief Curator.

He wrote monographs on fossil British horseshoe crabs (1866-1878) and trilobites of the Carboniferous ( 1883-1884 ).

In 1873 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. He holds an honorary doctorate ( LL.D. ) from the University (1878 ) St. Andrews. Woodward was 1894-1896 President of the Geological Society of London, the Murchison Medal in 1884 and he whose Wollaston medal he received in 1906. He was also president of the Palaentographical Society, the Macalogical Society, the Geologists Association, the Royal Microscopical Society and the Museums Association.

He was from 1865 to 1918 editor of the Geological Magazine, which he co-founded in 1864.

His nephew Horace Bolingbroke Woodward, son of Samuel Pickworth Woodward, was also a significant geologist who received the Wollaston medal.