Alexander Henry Green

Alexander Henry Green FRS (October 10, 1832 – August 19, 1896) was an English geologist.

Born at Maidstone, he was the son of the Rev. Thomas Sheldon Green, master of the Ashby Grammar School. He was educated partly at his father's school, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, and afterwards at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated as sixth wrangler in 1855 and was elected a fellow of his college. In 1861 he joined the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and surveyed large areas of the midland counties, Derbyshire and Yorkshire.

He wrote (wholly or in part) memoirs on the "Geology of Banbury" (1864), of "Stockport" (1866), of "North Derbyshire" (1869, 2nd ed. 1887), and of the "Yorkshire Coal-field" (1878). In 1874 he retired from the Geological Survey, having been appointed professor of geology in the Yorkshire College at Leeds; in 1885 he became also professor of mathematics, while for many years he held the lectureship on geology at the school of military engineering at Chatham.

He was elected fellow of the Royal Society in 1886, and two years later was chosen professor of geology in the University of Oxford. In 1892 he was awarded the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London.

His wrote a manual of "Physical Geology" (1876, 3rd ed. 1882).

He died at Boars Hill, Oxford, on 19 August 1896.

A portrait of him, with brief memoir, was published in "Proc. Yorksh. Geol. and Polytechnic Soc." xiii. 232.

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