George Wareing Ormerod

George Wareing Ormerod (12 October 1810 – 6 January 1891) was a British geologist.

Ormerord was born at "The Damhouse", Tyldesley, Lancashire, the second son of the antiquarian, George Ormerod (1785–1873), and his wife, Sarah, "née" Latham (1784–1860). He was educated at private schools and by a private tutor at Harborne, near Birmingham, matriculated in 1829 at Brasenose College, Oxford, and graduated BA in 1833 and MA in 1836. He was admitted a solicitor in 1836 and practised in Manchester until 1855. Ormerod became a fellow of the Geological Society of London in 1833, and studied the Cheshire salt deposits, the Permian of Lancashire, and the drainage and subsidence of Chat Moss, publishing eight papers on these subjects between 1842 and 1853. He was a member of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, and became treasurer in 1854.

In 1855, Ormerod moved to Devon, where he spent the rest of his life. He practised in Chagford until 1869, when he moved to Teignmouth. He continued his geological studies, publishing papers on the northern edge of the Dartmoor granite, on minerals from the Trias, on fossils from Kent's cavern, and on the geology of south Devon. Ormerod joined the Devonshire Association in 1862 and served on the council and as a local secretary. He published a classified index to the association's publications in 1886, and a similar index to the Geological Society's publications in 1858, with later supplements. In addition to his geological work, Ormerod published papers on prehistoric and later antiquities in Devon, and on local history, including the "Annals of the Teignmouth Cricket Club" (1888). Ormerod, who never married, died at Bonnicliff, East Teignmouth.