Thomas Henry Holland

Thomas Henry Holland

Born	22 November 1868 Helston, Cornwall, England
Died	15 May 1947 (1947-05-16) (aged 78)
Alma mater	Royal College of Science Owens College
Occupation	Geologist, university administrator

Sir Thomas Henry Holland KCSI KCIE FRS^[1] FRSE LLD (22 November 1868 – 15 May 1947) was a British geologist and educational administrator.^[2]

Early life

Thomas Holland was born on 22 November 1868 in Helston, Cornwall^[1] the son of John Holland and his wife Grace Treloar Roberts.^[3]

In 1884, he won a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Science, graduating with a first class degree in Geology. He stayed on until he was awarded a Berkeley Fellowship at Owens College, Manchester, in 1889.

Career

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.^[4]

Under the editorship of Holland a four volume "Provincial Geographies of India" series was published between 1913-23 from the Cambridge University Press.

Holland was Rector of Imperial College London^[5] 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". He was also a member of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society.^[2] From him comes the first scientific description of the charnockites near Calcutta.^[6]

From 1929 until 1940 he was Principal of Edinburgh University. In 1930 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir James Alfred Ewing, Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, Ralph Allan Sampson and James Hartley Ashworth. He served as the Society's Vice President from 1932 to 1935. He won the Society's Bruce Preller Prize for 1941.^[7]

Death

Holland died unexpectedly at his home in Surbiton on 15 May 1947.^[8]

Family

He married twice: firstly in 1896 to Frances Maud Chapman (d.1942); secondly, aged 78, to Helen Ethleen Verrall.

References

1 2 Fermor, L. L. (1948). "Thomas Henry Holland. 1868-1947". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 6 (17): 83. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1948.0021. JSTOR 768913.
1 2 "Holland, Sir Thomas Henry". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33945. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
↑ BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF FORMER FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
↑ Presidential Address to the British Association Meeting, held at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in 1929
↑ Sir Thomas H. Holland, KCSI, KCIE, DSC, LLD, FRS, Imperial College, London, UK.
↑ A. Raman: The Madras charnockite. Expressbuzz, 10 November 2009.
↑ BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF FORMER FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
↑ Fermor, L. L. (1947). "Sir Thomas Holland, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E., F.R.S". Nature. 160 (4053): 11. doi:10.1038/160011a0. .

External links

AIM25: Royal Society: Holland, Thomas Henry (1868–1947), AIM25

Academic offices
Preceded by Alfred Keogh	Rector of Imperial College London 1922–1929	Succeeded by Henry Tizard
Preceded by Sir Alfred James Ewing	Edinburgh University Principals 1929–1944	Succeeded by Sir John Fraser

Presidents of the Geological Society of London

19th century	George Bellas Greenough Henry Grey Bennet William Blake John MacCulloch George Bellas Greenough Earl Compton William Babington William Buckland John Bostock William Fitton Adam Sedgwick Roderick Murchison George Bellas Greenough Charles Lyell William Whewell William Buckland Roderick Murchison Henry Warburton Leonard Horner Henry De la Beche Charles Lyell William Hopkins Edward Forbes William Hamilton Daniel Sharpe Joseph Ellison Portlock John Phillips Leonard Horner Andrew Crombie Ramsay William Hamilton Warington Wilkinson Smyth Thomas Henry Huxley Joseph Prestwich George Douglas Campbell John Evans Peter Martin Duncan Henry Clifton Sorby Robert Etheridge John Whitaker Hulke Thomas Bonney John Wesley Judd William Blanford Archibald Geikie Wilfred Hudleston Henry Woodward Henry Hicks William Whitaker

20th century	Jethro Teall Charles Lapworth John Marr Archibald Geikie William Sollas William Watts Aubrey Strahan Arthur Smith Woodward Alfred Harker George Lamplugh Richard Oldham Albert Seward John Evans Francis Bather John Gregory Edmund Garwood Thomas Holland John Green Owen Thomas Jones Henry Hurd Swinnerton Percy Boswell Herbert Leader Hawkins William Fearnsides Arthur Trueman Herbert Harold Read Cecil Tilley Owen Thomas Jones George Lees William King Walter Campbell Smith Leonard Hawkes James Stubblefield Sydney Hollingworth Oliver Bulman Frederick Shotton Kingsley Dunham Thomas Neville George William Alexander Deer Thomas Westoll Percy Kent Wallace Pitcher Percival Allen Howel Francis Janet Watson Charles Holland Bernard Leake Derek Blundell Anthony Harris Charles Curtis R. S. J. Sparks Richard Hardman Robin Cocks

21st century	Ronald Oxburgh Mark Moody-Stuart Peter Styles Richard Fortey Lynne Frostick

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 32761602 LCCN: nb2008005751 ISNI: 0000 0001 1511 2476 GND: 11696247X SUDOC: 130413046 NLA: 35745034

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