Background
English, George Letchworth was born on June 14, 1864 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John A. and Amanda (Evans) English.
English, George Letchworth was born on June 14, 1864 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John A. and Amanda (Evans) English.
Graduate Friends’ Central School, Philadelphia, 1831.
Collected minerals in Europe, North and South America, Africa and Australia. Head firm George L. English & Company, Philadelphia and New York, dealers in scientific minerals, 1886-1904. Monazite expert, and in charge of mining monazite in North. and South. Carolina for National Light & Thorium Company, 1903-1913.
Manager department of mineralogy and petrography, Ward’s Natural Science Establishment, Rochester, New York, 1913-1921.
Consultant mineralogist for the same (later The Frank A Ward Foundation of Natural Science of the University of Rochester), 1921-1934. Has lectured on mineralogy for New York City Board of Education, also before various societies.
Fellow and life; member Philadelphia Academy Natural Sciences, Brooklyn Institute Arts and Sciences (life), New York Mineral.
Married Louise T. Baltz, June 17, 1890 (died March 10, 1920). Married second, Jane Parsons Hanna, March 29, 1923. Children: Mistress Gwendolen Burleson, Henry Rowland, Kathrine Louise (deceased).