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Edmund Johnston Garwood (18 May 1864 in 
He was born in Bridlington and educated at Eton and 
He was elected a
Bridlington
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, East Riding of Yorkshire
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– 12 June 1949 in London
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) was a British
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geologist and President of the Geological Society of London
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from 1930 to 1932.
He was born in Bridlington and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge
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, where he matriculated in 1886. In 1899 he accompanied D.W. Freshfieldon an expedition to Kanchenjunga and wrote an account of the local geology.
In 1901 he was appointed Yates-Goldsmid Professor of Geology and Mineralogy at London University
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, a position he held until his retirement in 1931.
In 1913-14, Garwood was elected as the President of the Geographical Association.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
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in May 1914. His candidature citation read:Yates-Goldsmild Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in the University of London. Author of: - 'Origin of the Concretions in the Magnesian Limestone' (Geol Mag, 1891); 'The Geology of Northumberland – County History of Northumberland' (vols i-vi); 'Contributions to the Glacial Geology of Spitzbergen' (with Dr J W Gregory, Quart Journ Geol Soc, vol liv); 'Addition Notes on the Glacial Phenomena of Spitzbergen' (ibid, vol lv); 'Notes on a Map of the Glacier of Kargchenjunga' (Geogr Journ, 1902); 'Hanging Valleys in the Alps and Himalayas' (Quart Journ Geol Soc, vol lviii); 'The Geological Structure and Physical Features of Sikkim' (Appendix to 'Round Kangchenjunga', by D W Freshfield, 1903); 'The Tarns of the Canton Ticino' (Quart Journ Geol Soc, vol lxii); 'The Faunal Succession in the Carboniferous Limestone of Westmorland' (Geol Mag, 1907); 'The Geology of Tynemouth Parish – County History of Northumberland' (vol viii); 'Note on a new Sounding Machine for use on Lakes and Rivers without a Boat' (Proc Roy Soc, A, vol lxxxi, 1908); The Geology of Northlumberland and Durham' (Jubilee volume of Geol Assoc, Part iv); 'The Lower Carboniferous Succession in the North-West of England' (Quart Journ Geol Soc, lxviii).The glacier systems of King's Bay Spitsbergen. From Garwood (1899)
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1864 births 1949 deaths People educated at Eton College People from Bridlington British geologists Fellows of the Royal Society Lyell Medal winners {{UK-geologist-stub