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Name
  
Edward Hull

Role
  
Geologist


Awards
  
Murchison Medal

Edward Hull (geologist) Edward Hull MA LLD FRS etc Pioneers of the British

Died
  
1917, Notting Hill, London, United Kingdom

Books
  
The physical geology & geography of Ireland

Education
  
Trinity College, Dublin

Edward Hull (21 May 1829 – 1917), M.A., L.L.D., F.R.S., a geologist and stratigrapher, held the position of Director of the Geological Survey of Ireland. He was also a professor of geology in the Royal College of Science, Dublin. His dates are listed in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

He was born in Antrim, Ireland, the eldest son of the Reverend J.D. Hull. He graduated BA from Trinity College, Dublin.

He joined the Geological Survey of Ireland and worked in Wales and on the Lancashire Coalfield. He worked for the Geological Survey of Scotland (1867-1868) and led an expedition to survey parts of Arabia Petraea and Palestine (1883). He became Director of the Irish branch of the Survey and retired in 1891. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June, 1867. He was President of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland in 1873.

Edward Hull’s obituarist wrote of him, “He maintained the honour of a gentleman.”

Works

  • The Physical Geology and Geography of Ireland, published by Edward Stranforth, London, 1878.
  • Hull, Edward (1886). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoir on the Physical Geology and Geography of Arabia Petraea. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. 
  • Hull, Edward (1892). Volcanoes: Past and Present. London: Walter Scott, Ltd. 
  • The Wallchart of World History This book has been updated in the late 20th century and 21st century.
  • The Coal-fields of Great Britain: Their History, Structure and Resources 1861, in which Hull mentions the coal fields of Arley, and in which he suggests that the Romans may have mined for coal.
  • Geology of Belfast and the Lagan Valley: (One-Inch Geological Sheet 36) by H. E. Wilson and Edward Hull and Manning, P. I. and James Andrew Robbie.
  • Memoirs of a Strenuous Life (his 1909 autobiography)

    • References

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