Английская Википедия:Edward Battersby Bailey
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Sir Edward Battersby Bailey FRS[1] FRSE MC LLD (1 July 1881 – 19 March 1965) was an English geologist.
Life
Bailey was born in Marden, Kent, the son of Dr James Battersby Bailey and Louise Florence Carr.[2]
He was educated at Kendal grammar school and Clare College, Cambridge.[3] He gained first-class honours in both parts one and two of the natural sciences tripos.[4] He also won a heavyweight boxing medal while at Cambridge.[4]
From 1915 to 1919 he served as a Lieutenant with the Royal Garrison Artillery and was twice wounded, losing his left eye and much of the use of his left arm. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1916[5] and the French Croix de Guerre with palms in 1919.[6] He was also made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.[4]
He was Vice President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1935 to 1937.
From 1929 to 1937, he held the chair in geology at the University of Glasgow, where he was succeeded by Sir Arthur Elijah Trueman (chair in geology 1937–1946).
He was director of the British Geological Survey from 1937 to 1945.[4]
He was an atheist.[7]
He died in Middlesex Hospital in London. He was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium.
Family
His first wife, Alice Meason, died in 1956. He remarried, to Mary M W Young in 1962.
Publications
Honours and awards
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1930,[1] in 1943 he was awarded its Royal Medal. In 1948 he received the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society. He was also a foreign member of the national academies of Belgium, India, Norway, Switzerland, and the United States.[4]
Bailey was a knighted in the 1945 New Year Honours[8] and received the accolade from the King on 13 February 1945.[9]
References
Further reading
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 Шаблон:Cite journal
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- ↑ 4,0 4,1 4,2 4,3 4,4 C. James Stubblefield, 'Bailey, Sir Edward Battersby (1881–1965)’, rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2007 Retrieved 13 Feb 2009
- ↑ Шаблон:London Gazette
- ↑ Шаблон:London Gazette
- ↑ A.G. MacGregor: "Bailey, Edward Battersby", Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography Vol. 1 p. 393. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2008.
- ↑ Шаблон:London Gazette
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