Robert Alfred Cloyne Godwin-Austen
Robert Alfred Cloyne Godwin - Austen, FRS ( born March 17, 1808 † November 25, 1884 in Shalford House, near Guildford ) was an English geologist.
Godwin - Austen was the eldest son of Sir Henry E. Austen. He was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, where he became a member in 1830, before he joined Lincoln 's Inn. In 1833 he married the only daughter and heiress of General Sir Henry T. Godwin, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, and in 1834 acquired the royal permission to perform the additional name Godwin. As a student of William Buckland in Oxford he became interested in geology. A short time later he met Henry De la Beche, and assisted him during the recording of a geological map of the area of Newton Abbot in Devon, which was later using the official map of the Geological Survey. In addition, he published a paper on the geology of the southeast of Devonshire ( On the Geology of the South - East of Devonshire ), which appeared in the Transactions of the Geological Society (Series 2, volume viii).
He then turned his attention to the rocks of the Cretaceous of Surrey, the county in which were his property, in Chilworth and Shalford near Guildford. Later he dealt with to the superficial deposits on the English Channel and the erratic blocks of Selsey. In 1855 he presented to the Geological Society of London his work On the possible extension of the Coal - Measures beneath the South -Eastern part of England in which he set out the reasons why in this area coal-bearing layers would occur underground. In this paper, he also took the view that the Old Red Sandstone was deposited not in the sea, but on land, and discussed the relationship of the Old Red Sandstone of Devonian, Silurian and Carboniferous.
He was elected in 1849 as a member of the Royal Society, and in 1862 the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London awarded him. On this occasion he was described by Roderick Murchison as an outstanding physical geographer of bygone days. Godwin - Austen died in Shalford House near Guildford. His son Henry Haversham Godwin - Austen was also a geologist, on the expedition in 1856, one of the names of the K2 back (Mount Godwin - Austen ).