Background
Samuel was born in Norwich, United Kingdom on the 3rd of October 1790.
Samuel was born in Norwich, United Kingdom on the 3rd of October 1790.
Apprenticed in 1804 to a manufacturer of camlets and bombazines, a taste for serious study was stimulated by his master, Alderman John Herring and by Joseph John Gurney.
He was for the most part self-educated. Becoming interested in geology and archaeology, he began to form the collection which after his death was purchased for the Norwich museum. In 1820 he obtained a clerkship in Gurney"s (afterwards Barclay"s) bank at Norwich, and Hudson Gurney and Dawson Turner (of Yarmouth), both fellows of the Royal Society, encouraged his scientific work.
He communicated to the Archaeologia articles on the round church towers of Norfolk, the Roman remains of the country, et cetera, and other papers on natural history and geology to the Magazine.
National History. and Philosophy. Magazine. He was author of:
A Synoptical Table of British Organic Remains (1830), the first work of its kind in Britain
An Outline of the Geology of Norfolk (1833)
The Norfolk Topographer"s Manual (1842) issued posthumously
The History and Antiquities of Norwich Castle (1847) issued posthumously
The second son, Samuel Pickworth Woodward (1821-1865), became in 1845 professor of geology and natural history in the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, and in 1848 was appointed assistant in the department of geology and mineralogy in the British Museum.
He was author of A Manual of the Mollusca (in three parts, 1851, 1853 and 1856). Samuel Woodward"s youngest son, Henry was also a noted geologist.
See Memoir of South. Woodward (with bibliography) in transactions
Norfolk National Society (1879), and of SP Woodward (with portrait and bibliography), Ibidem (in the same place) (1882), by HB Woodward.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, educated
(1911). "Woodward, Samuel". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed). Cambridge University Press.