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CROSSKEY, HENRY WILLIAM (1826–1893)

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CROSSKEY, See also:HENRY See also:WILLIAM (1826–1893) , See also:English geologist and Unitarian See also:minister, was See also:born at See also:Lewes in See also:Sussex, on the 7th of See also:December 1826. After being trained for the See also:ministry at See also:Manchester New See also:College (1843–1848), he became pastor of Friargate See also:chapel, See also:Derby, until 1852, when he accepted See also:charge of a Unitarian See also:congregation in See also:Glasgow. In 1869 he removed to See also:Birmingham, where until the See also:close of his See also:life he was pastor of the See also:Church of the See also:Messiah. While in Glasgow his See also:interest was awakened in See also:geology by the perusal of A. C. See also:Ramsay's Geology of the Isle of See also:Arran, and from 1855 onwards he devoted his leisure to the pursuit of this See also:science. He became an authority on glacial geology, and wrote much, especially in See also:conjunction with See also:David See also:Robertson, on the See also:post-See also:tertiary fossiliferous beds of See also:Scotland (Trans. Geol. See also:Soc. Glasgow). He also prepared for the See also:British Association a valuable See also:series of Reports (1873–1892) on the erratic Blocks of See also:England, See also:Wales and See also:Ireland. In See also:con-junction with David Robertson and G.

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Brady he wrote the Monograph of the Post Tertiary See also:Entomostraca of Scotland, &c. for the Palaeontographical Society (1874); and he edited H. Carvill See also:Lewis' Papers and Notes on the Glacial Geology of See also:Great See also:Britain and Ireland, issued posthumously (1894). He died at Edgbaston, Birmingham, on the 1st of See also:October 1893. See H. W. Crosskey: his Life and See also:Work, by R. A. See also:Armstrong (with See also:chapter on his See also:geological work by Prof. C. See also:Lapworth, 1895).

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