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MAXWELL See also: born in See also: Dublin in 1822
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He was educated at See also: Weymouth and at Trinity See also: College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1846; and two years later he entered See also: holy orders
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For a See also: year he was curate of All See also: Saints, Northampton; from 1849 to 1857 he was rector of Shangton in See also: Leicestershire; and then for four years he was curate of See also: Waltham-on-the-Wolds
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In 1861, on the See also: death of his See also: father, he returned to Dublin, and while giving his services to various churches in the city, devoted himself almost wholly to See also: literary and scientific pursuits, and especially to the glacial geology of See also: Ireland, on which subject he became an acknowledged authority
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His paper, read before the See also: Geological Society of Ireland in 1866, on the " General Glaciation of Ireland " is a masterly description of the effects of glaciation, and of the evidence in favour of the See also: action of See also: land-ice
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Later on he discussed the 'origin of J the elevated See also: shell-bearing gravels near Dublin, and expressed the view that they were accumulated by floating ice when the land had undergone submergence
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He was for a See also: time treasurer of the Royal Irish See also: Academy, an active member of the Royal Dublin Society, and president in 1878 of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland
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Astronomy and physics, as well as the See also: ancient language and antiquities of Ireland, •attracted his See also: attention
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He died in Dublin on the 12th of See also: September 1903
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The obituary by Prof
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J . See also: Cole in Irish Naturalist, vol. xii
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(1903) pp
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301-306, contains a See also: list of publications and portrait
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