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See also:STRICKLAND, See also:HUGH See also:EDWIN (1811—1853) , See also:English naturalist and geologist, was See also:born at Righton, in the See also:East See also:Riding of See also:York-See also:shire, on the 2nd of See also:March 1811, and was See also:grandson of See also:Sir See also:George Strickland, See also:Bart. As a lad he acquired a See also:taste for natural See also:history which dominated his See also:life. He received his See also:early See also:education from private tutors and in 1829 entered See also:Oriel See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford. He attended the anatomical lectures of Dr See also:John See also:Kidd and the See also:geological lectures of Dr W. See also:Buckland and he became greatly interested both in See also:zoology and See also:geology. He graduated B.A. in 1831, and proceeded to M.A. in the following See also:year. Returning to his See also:home at Cracombe See also:House, near See also:Tewkesbury, he began to study the geology of the Vale of See also:Evesham, communicating papers to the Geological Society of See also:London (1833—1834). He also gave much See also:attention to See also:ornithology. Becoming acquainted with See also:Murchison he was introduced to 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 John See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton (1805—1867) and accompanied him in 1835 in a See also:journey through See also:Asia See also:Minor, the Thracian See also:Bosporus and the See also:Island of See also:Zante. Mr Hamilton afterwards published the results of this journey and of a subsequent excursion by himself to See also:Armenia in Researches in Asia Minor, See also:Pontus and Armenia (1842): After his return in 1836 Strickland brought before the Geological Society several papers on the geology of the districts he had visited in See also:southern See also:Europe and Asia. He also described in detail the See also:drift deposits in the counties of See also:Worcester and See also:Warwick, See also:drawing particular attention to the fluviatile deposits of Cropthorne in which remains of See also:hippopotamus, &c., were found. With Murchison he read before the Geological Society an important See also:paper " On the Upper Formations of the New Red See also:Sandstone See also:System in See also:Gloucestershire, See also:Worcestershire and See also:Warwickshire" (Trans. Geol. See also:Soc., 1840). In other papers he described the See also:Bristol See also:Bone-See also:bed near Tewkesbury and the See also:Ludlow Bone-bed of Woolhope. He was author likewise of ornithological See also:memoirs communicated to the Zoological Society, the See also:Annals and See also:Magazine of Natural History and the See also:British Association. He also See also:drew up the See also:report, in 1842, of a See also:committee appointed by the British Association to consider the rules of zoological nomenclature. He was one of the founders of the See also:Ray Society suggested in 1843 and established in 1844, the See also:object being the publication of See also:works on natural history which could not be undertaken by scientific See also:societies or by publishers. For this society Strickland corrected, enlarged and edited the MS. of See also:Agassiz for the Bibliographia Zoologiae et GeOlogiae (1848). In 1845 he edited with J. Buckman a second and enlarged edition of Murchison's Outline of the Geology of the neighbourhood of See also:Cheltenham. In 1846 he settled at Oxford, and two years later he issued in See also:conjunction with Dr A. G. See also:Melville a See also:work on The See also:Dodo and its kindred. In 1850 he was appointed See also:deputy reader in geology at Oxford during the illness of Buckland, and in 1852 he was elected F.R.S. In the following year, after attending the See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting of the British Association at See also:Hull, he went to examine the cuttings on the See also:Manchester, See also:Sheffield & See also:Lincolnshire railway near See also:Retford, and he was there knocked down and killed by a See also:train on the 14th of See also:September 1853. He was buried at Deerhnrst See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church near Tewkesbury, where a memorial window was erected.
See Memoirs of H. E. Strickland, by Sir William Jardine, Bart. (1858).
End of Article: STRICKLAND, HUGH EDWIN (1811—1853)
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