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See also:WOODWARD, See also:SAMUEL (179o-1838) , See also:English geologist and See also:antiquary, was See also:born at See also:Norwich on the 3rd of See also:October 1790. He was for the most See also:part self-educated. Apprenticed in 1804 to a manufacturer of camlets and bombazines, a See also:taste for serious study was stimulated by his See also:master, See also:Alderman See also:John See also:Herring and by See also:Joseph John See also:Gurney. Becoming interested in See also:geology and See also:archaeology, he began to See also:form the collection which after his See also:death was See also:purchased for the Norwich museum. In 1820 he obtained a clerkship in Gurney's (afterwards See also:Barclay's) See also:bank at Norwich, and See also:Hudson Gurney and See also:Dawson See also:Turner (of See also:Yarmouth), both See also:fellows of the Royal Society, encouraged his scientific See also:work. He communicated to the Archaeologia articles on the See also:round 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 towers of See also:Norfolk, the See also:Roman remains of the See also:country, &c., and other papers on natural See also:history and geology to the Mag. Nat. Hist. and Phil. Mag. He died at Norwich on the 14th of See also:January 1838. He was author of A Synoptical Table of See also:British Organic Remains (183o), the first work of its See also:kind in See also:Britain; An Outline of the Geology of Norfolk (1833); and of two See also:works issued posthumously, The Norfolk Topographer's See also:Manual (1842) and The History and Antiquities of Norwich See also:Castle (1847).
His eldest son, See also:Bernard See also:Bolingbroke Woodward (1816–1869), was librarian and keeper of the prints and drawings at See also:Windsor Castle from 186o until his death. The second son, Samuel Pickworth Woodward (1821–1865), became in 1845 See also:professor of geology and natural history in the Royal Agricultural See also:College, See also:Cirencester, and in 1848 was appointed assistant in the See also:department of geology and See also:mineralogy in the British Museum. He was author of A Manual of the See also:Mollusca (in three parts, 1851, 1853 and 1856).
S. P. Woodward's son, See also:Horace Bolingbroke Woodward (b. 1848), became in 1863 an assistant in the library of the See also:Geological Society, and joined the Geological Survey in 1867, rising to be assistant-director. In 1893–1894 he was See also:president of the Geologists' Association, and he published many important works on geology. Samuel Woodward's youngest son, See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry Woodward
(b. 1832) became assistant in the geological department of the British Museum in 1858, and in 1880 keeper of that department. He became F.R.S. in 1873, LL.D. (St See also:Andrews) in 1878, president of the Geological Society of See also:London (1894-1896), and was awarded the See also:Wollaston See also:medal of that society in Ig06. He published a Monograph of the British Fossil See also:Crustacea, 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 Merostomata (Palaeontograph. See also:Soc. 1866-1878); A Monograph of Carboniferous See also:Trilobites (See also:Pal. Soc. 1883-1884), and many articles in scientific See also:journals. He was editor of the Geological See also:Magazine from its commencement in 1864.
See Memoir of S. Woodward (with bibliography) in Trans. Norfolk Nat. Soc. (1879), and of S. P. Woodward (with portrait and bibliography), Ibid. (1882), by H. B. Woodward.
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