TheWoodwardian Professor of Geologyis a professorship held in theDepartment of Earth Sciencesat theUniversity of Cambridge.It was founded byJohn Woodwardin 1728 under the title of Professor of Fossils. Woodward's will left to the University a large collection of fossils and also dictated that the professor should be elected by theArchbishop of Canterbury,theBishop of Ely,the President of theRoyal Society,the President of theRoyal College of Physicians,the Member of Parliament for theUniversity of Cambridge,and the University Senate.[1]
Incumbents of the Woodwardian Professorship of Geology
edit- Conyers Middleton,1731
- Charles Mason,1734 (died 1770 and described on histomb in Orwell churchas "Woodwardian Professor of Fossils" )
- John Michell,1762
- Samuel Ogden,1764
- Thomas Green,1778
- John Hailstone,1788
- Adam Sedgwick,1818
- Thomas McKenny Hughes,1873
- John Edward Marr,1917
- Owen Thomas Jones,1930
- William Bernard Robinson King,1943
- Oliver Meredith Boone Bulman,1955
- Harry Blackmore Whittington,1966-1983
- Ian Nicholas McCave,1985-2008[1]
- David A. Hodell,2008-
See also
editReferences
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