Background
Thomas Holland was born on 22 November 1868 in Helston, Cornwall.
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Thomas Holland was born on 22 November 1868 in Helston, Cornwall.
Imperial College London.
He stayed on until he was awarded a Berkeley Fellowship at Owens College, Manchester, in 1889. In 1890, Holland was appointed Assistant Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India and curator of the Geological Museum and Laboratory. In 1903, he was appointed Director of the Geological Survey of India and in 1904 he was elected to be a Fellow of the Royal Society.
In 1908, he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE) for his services to the Geological Survey of India.
He was president of the British Association in 1928–1929. Under the editorship of Holland a four volume "Provincial Geographies of India" series was published between 1913-1923 from the Cambridge University Press.
Holland was Rector of Imperial College London from 1922 to 1929 and Principal of the University of Edinburgh from 1929 to 1944. The Albert Medal of the Royal Society of Arts for 1939 was awarded to Sir Thomas H. Holland, "for his services to the mineral industries".
From him comes the first scientific description of the charnockites near Calcutta.
Holland died unexpectedly on 15 May 1947.
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He was also a member of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society.