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See also:FAREY, See also:JOHN (1766-1826) , See also:English geologist, was See also:born at See also:Woburn in See also:Bedfordshire in 1766. He was educated at See also:Halifax in See also:Yorkshire, and showed such aptitude in See also:mathematics, See also:drawing and See also:surveying, that he was brought under the See also:notice of John See also:Smeaton (1724-1792). In 1792 he was appointed See also:agent to the See also:duke of See also:Bedford for his Woburn estates. After the decease of the duke, Farey in 1802 removed to See also:London, and settled there as a consulting surveyor and geologist. That he was enabled to take this step was due largely to his acquaintance with See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith (q.v.), who in 1801 had been employed by the duke of Bedford in See also:works of draining and See also:irrigation. The duke, appreciating Smith's knowledge of the strata, commissioned him in 1802 to explore the margin of the See also:chalk-hills See also:south of Woburn in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to determine the true See also:succession of the strata; and he instructed Farey to accompany him. Farey has remarked
that Smith was his " See also:Master and Instructor in See also:Mineral Surveying," and his subsequent publications show how well he had profited by the teachings he received. Farey prepared the See also:General View of the See also:Agriculture and Minerals of See also:Derbyshire in two vols. (1811-1813) for the See also:Board of Agriculture. In the first of these volumes (181 I) he gave an able See also:account of the upper See also:part of the See also:British See also:series of strata, and a masterly exposition of the Carboniferous and other strata of Derbyshire. In this classic See also:work, and in a See also:paper published in the Phil. Mag. vol. li. 1818, p. 173, on " Mr Smith's See also:Geological Claims stated," he zealously called See also:attention to the importance of the discoveries of William Smith. Farey died in London on the 6th of See also:January 1826.
See See also:Biographical Notice, by W. S. See also:Mitchell, in Geol. Mag. 1873, p. 25.
End of Article: FAREY, JOHN (1766-1826)
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