Charles Stewart Middlemiss FRS (1859,

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– 11 June 1945,

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) was a British geologist who worked in British India and the Princely States. After education at

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, Middlemiss matriculated in 1878 at

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and graduated there in 1881 with B.A. and then spent two more years in private study of geology. On 21 September 1883 he joined the Geological Survey of India as Assistant Superintendent. In the service of the Geological Survey of India he became in 1889 Deputy Superintendent and in 1895 Superintendent, retiring in April 1917. He then went into the service of the Maharaja of Kasmir and Jammu. He was given the title of Superintendent, Mineral Survey of Jammu and Kashmir State, and held this position from 1917 to 1930. He returned to the UK in 1930 and settled at

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. He died in hospital in the nearby city of Tunbridge Wells. In Nainital on 6 June 1887 he married Martha Frances Wheeler, whose father was Major-General Frederick Wheeler.

Awards and honours

*1900 — Fellow of the Geological Society of London *1914 — Lyell Medal *1916 —

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*1921 —

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, incl ...

Selected publications

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Middlemiss, Charles Stewart 1859 births 1945 deaths Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society People educated at Caistor Grammar School People from Kingston upon Hull Lyell Medal winners Geologists from British India 19th-century British geologists 20th-century British geologists British people in colonial India