Name Thomas Holland | Role Geologist | |
Born 22 November 1868 Helston, Cornwall, England Alma mater [Royal College of Science]]
Owens College Occupation Geologist, university administrator Died May 15, 1947, Surrey, United Kingdom Books The mineral sanction as an aid to international security, Minerals and international relations | ||
Sir Thomas Henry Holland KCSI KCIE FRS FRSE LLD (22 November 1868 – 15 May 1947) was a British geologist and educational administrator.
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Early life
Thomas Holland was born on 22 November 1868 in Helston, Cornwall the son of John Holland and his wife Grace Treloar Roberts.
In 1884, he won a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Science, graduating with a first class degree in Geology. He stayed on until he was awarded a Berkeley Fellowship at Owens College, Manchester, in 1889.
Career
In 1890, Holland was appointed Assistant Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India and curator of the Geological Museum and Laboratory. In 1903, he was appointed Director of the Geological Survey of India and in 1904 he was elected to be a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1908, he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE) for his services to the Geological Survey of India. He was president of the British Association in 1928–1929.
Under the editorship of Holland a four volume "Provincial Geographies of India" series was published between 1913 and 1923 from the Cambridge University Press.
Holland was Rector of Imperial College London from 1922 to 1929 and Principal of the University of Edinburgh from 1929 to 1944. The Albert Medal of the Royal Society of Arts for 1939 was awarded to Sir Thomas H. Holland, "for his services to the mineral industries". He was also a member of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. From him comes the first scientific description of the charnockites near Calcutta.
From 1929 until 1940 he was Principal of Edinburgh University. In 1930 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir James Alfred Ewing, Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, Ralph Allan Sampson and James Hartley Ashworth. He served as the Society's Vice-President from 1932 to 1935. He won the Society's Bruce Preller Prize for 1941.
Death
Holland died unexpectedly at his home in Surbiton on 15 May 1947.
Family
He married twice: firstly in 1896 to Frances Maud Chapman (d.1942); secondly, aged 78, to Helen Ethleen Verrall.