Henry Bolingbroke Woodward (24 November 1832 – 6 September 1921) was an

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and

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known for his research on fossil

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s and other

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s. Woodward was born Norwich, England on 24 November 1832 and was educated at

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. He became assistant in the geological department of the

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in 1858, and in 1880 keeper of that department. He became Fellow of the Royal Society in 1873, LL.D (St Andrews) in 1878, president of the Geological Society of London (1894–1896). He was awarded the Murchison Medal in 1884 and Wollaston Medal in 1906. Woodward was president of the Geologists' Association for the years 1873 and 1874, president of the Malacological Society of London, Malacological Society in 1893–1895, president of the Museums Association for the year 1900, and president of the Palaeontographical Society from 1895 (upon the death of incumbent president Thomas Henry Huxley, T. H. Huxley) to his own death in 1921. He published a ''Monograph of the British Fossil Crustacea, Order Merostomata'' (Palaeontographical Society, Palaeontograph. Soc. 1866–1878); ''A Monograph of Carboniferous Trilobites'' (Pal. Soc. 1883–1884), and many articles in scientific journals. He was editor of the ''Geological Magazine'' from its commencement in 1864 and sole editor from July 1865 until the end of 1918. Woodward's collection of shells, manuscripts and casts of fossil vertebrates can be found in the archives of the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology.

Family

Henry's father, Samuel Woodward, was a noted geologist and antiquary. Henry's brother Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward became a noted librarian and antiquary while his brother Samuel Pickworth Woodward became a professor of geology and natural history. His nephews were Bernard Barham Woodward, a British malacologist and a member of staff at the British Museum and the Natural History Museum, London, Natural History Museum and Horace Bolingbroke Woodward, who was vice-president of the Geological Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society. Henry Woodward had two sons, both of whom died before he did; the eldest, Henry Page Woodward was also a noted geologist who worked in Australia. Henry's second son, Martin, was a student of T. H. Huxley alongside H. G. Wells He was a promising zoologist, but was lost at sea when the boat in which he was traveling capsized in Ballinakill, County Galway, Ballinakill harbour. Henry also had five daughters, two of whom - Alice B. Woodward and Gertrude Mary Woodward - worked in biological illustration,Natural History Museum entry for Gertrude Mary Woodward
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References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Woodward, Henry 1832 births 1921 deaths English geologists People educated at Norwich School Fellows of the Royal Society Wollaston Medal winners Fellows of the Geological Society of London Fellows of the Zoological Society of London English palaeontologists Employees of the Natural History Museum, London Presidents of the Geologists' Association