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TRIMMER, JOSHUA (1795-1857)

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TRIMMER, See also:JOSHUA (1795-1857) , See also:English geologist, was See also:born at See also:North Cray in See also:Kent, on the 11th of See also:July 1795. He was son of Joshua See also:Kirby Trimmer of See also:Brentford, and See also:grandson of Mrs Sarah Trimmer (1741-1810), authoress of the See also:Story of the See also:Robins (1786). At the See also:age of nineteen he was sent to North See also:Wales to See also:manage a See also:copper-mine for his See also:father; subsequently he was placed in See also:charge of a See also:farm in See also:Middlesex, where the acquired a knowledge of and an See also:interest in soils; in 1825 he became manager (for his father) of See also:slate quarries near See also:Bangor and See also:Carnarvon, and in this See also:district he remained for many years. He discovered the marine shells in the See also:drift of Moel Tryfaen. During the years 1850-1854 he was engaged on the See also:Geological Survey, and surveyed parts of the New See also:Forest in See also:Hampshire. He died in See also:London on the 16th of See also:September 1817. He published See also:memoirs on the Origin of the Soils which See also:cover the See also:Chalk of Kent; On the See also:Geology of See also:Norfolk, as Illustrating the See also:Laws of the See also:Distribution of Soils (1847); and Proposals for a Geological Survey, specially directed to Agricultural See also:Objects (185o); in this respect he was a See also:pioneer in agricultural geology. He was author also of a useful See also:work See also:Practical Geology and See also:Mineralogy (1841). Obituary by J. E. See also:Portlock, in Quart. Journ.

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Soc. (1858).

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