Background
WOODWARD, Henry was born on November 24, 1832 in Norwich. Youngest son of Samuel Woodward, Norwich, antiquary and geologist.
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Henry Woodward
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Education
Studied at Norwich Grammar School. Reverend George Haddock’s, Botesdale, Suffolk. Royal Agriculture College, Cirencester, bank, Norwich, 1850-1857.
Doctor of Laws.
Career
He became assistant in the geological department of the British Museum in 1858, and in 1880 keeper of that department. He became Fellow of the Royal Society in 1873, LL.D (Street Andrews) in 1878, president of the Geological Society of London (1894–1896). He was awarded the Murchison Medal in 1884 and Wollaston Medal in 1906.
Woodward was president of the Geologists" Association for the years 1873 and 1874, president of the Malacological Society in 1893–1895, president of the Museums Association for the year 1900, and president of the Palaeontographical Society from 1895 (upon the death of incumbent president T H Huxley) to his own death in 1921.
He published a Monograph of the British Fossil Crustacea, Order Merostomata (Palaeontograph Social 1866-1878). A Monograph of Carboniferous Trilobites (Pal Social 1883-1884), and many articles in scientific journals.
He was editor of the Geological Magazine from its commencement in 1864 and sole editor from July 1865 until the end of 1918. Woodward"s collection of shells, manuscripts and casts of fossil vertebrates can be found in the archives of the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology.
Henry"s father, Samuel Woodward, was a noted geologist and antiquary.
Henry Woodward had two sons, both of whom died before he did. The eldest, Henry Page Woodward was also a noted geologist who worked in Australia. Henry"s second son, Martin, was a promising zoologist killed in a boating accident.
Membership
Fellow of the Royal Society. Fellow of the Geological Society.
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September 6, 1921 (aged 88) -
Nationality
United Kingdom
Awards
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Fellow of the Royal Society; Murchison Medal; Wollaston Medal Wollaston Medal; Murchison Medal
The Wollaston Medal is a scientific award for geology, the highest award granted by the Geological Society of London.; The Murchison Medal is an award established by Roderick Murchison, who died in 1871.The Wollaston Medal is a scientific award for geology, the highest award granted by the Geological Society of London.; The Murchison Medal is an award established by Roderick Murchison, who died in 1871.