Horace Bolingbroke Woodward

Horace Bolingbroke Woodward (20 August 1848 – 6 February 1914) was a British geologist who participated in the Geological Survey of England and Wales from 1867 until his retirement in 1908. He was vice-president of the Geological Society, where he was elected a Fellow in 1868. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1896.[1]

He was the second son[2] of the geologist Samuel Pickworth Woodward, the second son of the geologist and antiquary Samuel Woodward. Awarded the Wollaston Medal in 1909. His brother was Bernard Barham Woodward, a British malacologist and a member of staff at the British Museum and the Natural History Museum.

Selected works
  • The Geology of England and Wales. 1876.; 2nd edition. 1885.
  • The Jurassic Rocks of Britain. Vol. 3 vols. 1893–1895.
  • The History of the Geological Society of London. 1907.[3]
  • The Geology of Water-Supply. 1910.
  • History of Geology. 1911.[4]

References
  1. "Obituary. Horace B. Woodward". Geological Magazine. 51: 142–144. 1914. doi:10.1017/s0016756800138282.
  2. Addison, Henry Robert; Oakes, Charles Henry; Lawson, William John; Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton (1905). "WOODWARD, Horace Bolingbroke". Who's Who. Vol. 57. pp. 1771–1772.
  3. "Review of The History of the Geological Society of London by Horace B. Woodward". The Athenaeum (4167): 274. 7 September 1907.
  4. "Review of History of Geology by Horace B. Woodward". The Athenæum (4360): 572. 20 May 1911.


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