Background
OXBURGH, Ernest was born on November 2, 1934 in Liverpool. Son of Ernest Oxburgh and Violet Bugden.
OXBURGH, Ernest was born on November 2, 1934 in Liverpool. Son of Ernest Oxburgh and Violet Bugden.
Liverpool Institute, University of Oxford and University of Princeton, United States of America.
Lecturer in Geology 1962-1978, Fellow, Saint Edmund Hall 1964-1978, Emeritus Fellow since 1978, Honorary Fellow 1985. Professor, of Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Cambridge since 1978, Head of Department, of Earth Sciences 1980-1988. Professorial Fellow, Queens’ College, Cambridge since 1989.
Chief Scientific Adviser, Ministry of Defence since 1988.
Fellow, Trinity Hall Cambridge 1978-1982, Honorary Fellow 1983. President Queens’ College Cambridge 1982-1989.
Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar, California Institute of Technology 1985-1986. Honorary Fellow University College, Oxford 1983.
President European Union of Geosciences 1985-1987.
Geologists’ Association.
Married Ursula Mary Brown.