George Hoole Mitchell FRS

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FGS CBE (1902-1976) was a British geologist. He won the

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in 1947. He was Assistant Director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain from 1959 to 1967.

Life

He was born in

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on 31 December 1902, the son of George Richard Mitchell, a pewterer (1874-1965), and his wife Emma France, daughter of Hoole France. He was educated at Liverpool Collegiate School. He studied Science at the

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graduating BSc in 1924 and gaining an MSc in 1925. He gained a doctorate (PhD) in 1927. He joined the British Geological Survey in 1929 and rose to the level of Assistant Director. In 1953 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. In 1955 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were

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, Sir

Edward Battersby Bailey Sir Edward Battersby Bailey FRS FRSE MC CB LLD (1 July 1881 – 19 March 1965) was an English geologist. Life Bailey was born in Marden, Kent, the son of Dr James Battersby Bailey and Louise Florence Carr. He was educated at Kendal grammar s ...

Murray Macgregor George Murray Macgregor FRSE (21 January 1884 – 21 January 1966) was a Scottish geologist. He was described as "Scotland's most eminent coalfield geologist." Life Macgregor was born in Glasgow to Agnes Murray and George Macgregor. He studied a ...

James Phemister Dr James Phemister FRSE FGS FMS (3 April 1893 – 18 May 1986) was a 20th-century Scottish geologist. Life He was born in Govan on 3 April 1893, the son of John Clark Phemister (b.1858) and his wife, Elizabeth Galbraith Crawford. He was the olde ...

and John Knox. He served as the Society's Vice President 1964 to 1967. He was President of the Yorkshire Geological Society 1954 to 1956 and of the Edinburgh Geological Society 1961 to 1963. In 1967 he was created a Commander of the

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by Queen

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. He died in hospital in

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on 11 March 1976.

Family

In 1930 he married Vera Margaret Richardson.

Publications

*''Geology of the Country around

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'' (1940) *''Geology of the Country around

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(1947) *''Edinburgh Geology'' (1960) *''The

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'' (1970)

References

1902 births 1976 deaths Scientists from Liverpool Alumni of the University of Liverpool 20th-century British geologists Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh {{UK-geologist-stub