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MAXWELL HENRY CLOSE (1822-1903)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 556 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MAXWELL See also:HENRY See also:CLOSE (1822-1903)  , Irish geologist, was See also:born in See also:Dublin in 1822 . 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 . For a See also:year he was See also:curate of All See also:Saints, See also:Northampton; from 1849 to 1857 he was See also:rector of Shangton in See also:Leicestershire; and then for four years he was curate of See also:Waltham-on-the-Wolds . 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 See also:city, devoted himself almost wholly to See also:literary and scientific pursuits, and especially to the glacial See also:geology of See also:Ireland, on which subject he became an acknowledged authority . His See also:paper, read before the See also:Geological Society of Ireland in 1866, on the " See also:General Glaciation of Ireland " is a masterly description of the effects of glaciation, and of the See also:evidence in favour of the See also:action of See also:land-See also:ice . 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 . He was for a See also:time treasurer of the Royal Irish See also:Academy, an active member of the Royal Dublin Society, and See also:president in 1878 of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland . See also:Astronomy and physics, as well as the See also:ancient See also:language and antiquities of Ireland, •attracted his See also:attention . He died in Dublin on the 12th of See also:September 1903 . The obituary by Prof . G . A .

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Cole in Irish Naturalist, vol. xii . (1903) pp . 301-306, contains a See also:list of publications and portrait .

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