Thomas Rupert Jones

Thomas Rupert Jones (1 October 1819 - 1911) was an English geologist and palaeontologist born in London.

While at a private school at Ilminster, his attention was attracted to geology by the fossils that are so abundant in the Lias quarries. In 1835 he was apprenticed to a surgeon at Taunton, and he completed his apprenticeship in 1842 at Newbury in Berkshire. He was then engaged in practice mainly in London, until in 1849 he was appointed assistant secretary to the Geological Society of London. In 1862 he was made professor of geology at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Having devoted his especial attention to fossil microzoa, he now became the highest authority in England on the Foraminifera and Entomostraca. He edited the 2nd edition of Mantells "Medals of Creation" (1854), the 3rd edition of Mantells "Geological Excursions round the Isle of Wight" (1854), and the 7th edition of Mantells "Wonders of Geology" (1857); he also edited the 2nd edition of Dixons "Geology of Sussex" (1878). He was elected F.R.S. in 1872 and was awarded the Lyell medal by the Geological Society in 1890. For many years he was specially interested in the geology of South Africa.

His publications include "A Monograph of the Entomostraca of the Cretaceous Formation of England"; "A Monograph of the Tertiary Enlomostraca of England"; "A Monograph of the Fossil Estheriae"; "A Monograph of the Foraminifera of the Crag" with H. B. Brady); and numerous articles in the "Annals and Magazine of Natural History", the "Geological Magazine", the Proceedings of the Geologists Association, and other journals.

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