Duncan Leitch FRSE FGS (1904 -1956) was a 20th-century Scottish geologist and palaeontologist. He specialised in Carboniferous stratigraphy.

Life

He was born in

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on 20 March 1904. He was educated at Woodside School in Glasgow. He then studied Science at

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drifting towards an interest in geology due to Prof

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. He graduated with First Class Honours BSc in Geology in 1926. He then became a Demonstrator in the Geology lectures, assisting Prof Gregory. He was granted a Carnegie Teaching Fellowship and in 1938 he began lecturing in his own right. In 1946 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Arthur Trueman, John Weir,

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and Sir

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. In 1947 he accepted a professorship at University College, Swansea in

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. He had joined the Geological Society in 1928 and served as its Assistant Librarian until 1932. He became Secretary in 1937 and Chairman in 1947. He died in Swansea on 11/12 January 1956.

Publications

*''Geology in the Life of Man'' (1948)

References

1904 births 1956 deaths Scottish geologists Scientists from Glasgow Alumni of the University of Glasgow Academics of the University of Glasgow Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Scottish non-fiction writers {{UK-geologist-stub