Horace Bolingbroke Woodward , (20 August 1848 – 6 February 1914) was a

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geologist who participated in the Geological Survey of England and Wales from 1867 until his retirement in 1908. He was vice-president of the Geological Society, where he was elected a Fellow in 1868; elected a

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in 1896, and awarded the

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in 1909. He was second son of geologist Samuel Pickworth Woodward, himself second son of geologist and antiquary Samuel Woodward. His brother was

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Bernard Barham Woodward.

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1848 births 1914 deaths English geologists Fellows of the Royal Society Wollaston Medal winners Fellows of the Geological Society of London Presidents of the Geologists' Association {{UK-geologist-stub