Dawkins, William Boyd
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Manchester, Manchester, Greater Manchester, North West, England
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Professional services
Geological services
Notes:
(Sir) William Boyd Dawkins, 1837-1929, was a leading academic and museum curator in geology who from the 1870s also took up consultancy work for industry. His most notable achievement was the geological discovery of the Kent Coalfield in the 1890s but he was involved in much else - diamond mining in South Africa, water supply, boring for infrastructure projects including Channel Tunnel. Much employed as expert witness. Played important role in Manchester in linking academic study to industrial application
Publications:
- Catalogue of the papers of Professor Sir William Boyd Dawkins in the John Rylands University of Manchester by Tweedale, Geoffrey, & T Proctor
- Geology and industrial consultancy. Sir William Boyd Dawkins, 1837-1929, and the Kent coalfield by Tweedale, Geoffrey
- 'Sir William Boyd Dawkins, 1837-1929. A biographical sketch' in M J Bishop (ed), Cave Hunters. Biographical sketches of Sir William Boyd Dawkins,1837-1929, and Dr J Wilfrid Jackson, 1880-1978 by Jackson, J Wilfrid
Groups:
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Manchester, Manchester, Greater Manchester, North West, England
Sectors:
- Professional services Geological services
Notes:
(Sir) William Boyd Dawkins, 1837-1929, was a leading academic and museum curator in geology who from the 1870s also took up consultancy work for industry. His most notable achievement was the geological discovery of the Kent Coalfield in the 1890s but he was involved in much else - diamond mining in South Africa, water supply, boring for infrastructure projects including Channel Tunnel. Much employed as expert witness. Played important role in Manchester in linking academic study to industrial applicationPublications:
- Catalogue of the papers of Professor Sir William Boyd Dawkins in the John Rylands University of Manchester by Tweedale, Geoffrey, & T Proctor
- Geology and industrial consultancy. Sir William Boyd Dawkins, 1837-1929, and the Kent coalfield by Tweedale, Geoffrey
- 'Sir William Boyd Dawkins, 1837-1929. A biographical sketch' in M J Bishop (ed), Cave Hunters. Biographical sketches of Sir William Boyd Dawkins,1837-1929, and Dr J Wilfrid Jackson, 1880-1978 by Jackson, J Wilfrid