Samuel Pickworth Woodward

Samuel Pickworth Woodward ( born September 17, 1821 in Norwich, † July 11, 1865 in Herne Bay, Kent ) was a British geologist.

He was the son of Norwicher naturalists and amateur geologist Samuel Woodward and brother of Henry Woodward and Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward. Woodward was from 1839 auxiliary curator of the Geological Society of London, before becoming in 1845 professor of geology and natural history at the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester. From 1848 he was until his death wizard first class in the Department of Geology and Mineralogy of the British Museum.

His son Horace Bolingbroke Woodward was a famous geologist.

According to him, the mineral Woodwardit is named.