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HENRY WILLIAM BRISTOW (1817-2889)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 583 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY WILLIAM BRISTOW (1817-2889)  ,
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English geologist, son of Major-General H . Bristow, who served in the
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Peninsular War, was born on the 17th of May 1817 . He was educated at King's College,
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London, under John Phillips, then professor of geology . In 1842 he was appointed assistant geologist on the
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Geological Survey, and in that service he remained for
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forty-six years, becoming director for England and Wales in 1872, and retiring in 1888 . He was elected F.R.S. in 1862 . He died in London on the 14th of
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June 1889 . His publications (see Geol . Mag., 1889, p . 384) include A Glossary of
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Mineralogy (1861) and The Geology of the Isle of Wight (1862) .

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