Linsdall Richardson
Linsdall Richardson FRSE FGS FLS (24 December 1881 – 1 January 1967)[1] was a 20th-century British geologist and academic author who was awarded the Lyell Medal in 1937.[2]
Life
[edit]Linsdall Richardson was born in Burnley in Lancashire on 24 December 1881.[1] He was the son of Rev John Linsdall Richardson (b.1849), then a curate, and his wife, Fanny Sutcliffe of Burnley.[3] The family moved to Holton, Suffolk in 1882 and to Cratfield in Norfolk in 1884.[4]
He was educated at Clifton College, Bristol. He spent most of his life as Director of Cheltenham school of Science and Technology. In 1908 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Edward William Prevost, Alexander Morison McAldowie, John Walter Gregory and John Horne.[5]
In the First World War he worked on conscription with the Ministry of National Service.
He died on New Years Day, 1 January 1967.
He donated a large number of borehole samples of Quaternary sands and gravels to the Cheltenham Museum.[6]
Publications
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- Wells and Springs of Warwickshire (1928) Full-text at the Internet Archive
- Wells and Springs of Somerset (1928) Full-text at the British Geological Survey[7]
- The Country around Moreton-in-Marsh (1929) Full-text at the Internet Archive
- Wells and Springs in Worcestershire (1930) Full-text at the Internet Archive
- Wells and Springs of Gloucestershire (1930) Full-text at the British Geological Survey[8]
- Wells and Springs in Leicestershire (1931) Full-text at the Internet Archive
- The Country around Cirencester (1933) Full-text at the Internet Archive
- Wells and Springs of Herefordshire (1935) Full-text at the British Geological Survey[9]
- Geology of the Country around Witney (1946) Full-text at the Internet Archive
References
[edit]- ^ a b F.B.A.W. (1967). "Linsdall Richardson, F.R.S.E., F.G.S.". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 78 (2): 379–381. doi:10.1016/S0016-7878(67)80026-9.
- ^ "Lyell Medal". The Geological Society of London. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
- ^ Manchester Courier 27 September 1879
- ^ "Biographical". 1935.
- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 August 2016. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "BGS publications online". pubs.bgs.ac.uk. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
- ^ "BGS publications online". pubs.bgs.ac.uk. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
- ^ "BGS publications online". pubs.bgs.ac.uk. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
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