HENRY

See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

WILLIAM

See also:

• HENRY WILLIAM CROSSKEY (1826–1893)

CROSSKEY (1826–1893)  , English geologist and Unitarian minister, was born at Lewes in Sussex, on the 7th of December 1826 . After being trained for the ministry at Manchester New College (1843–1848), he became pastor of Friargate chapel, Derby, until 1852, when he accepted charge of a Unitarian congregation in Glasgow . In 1869 he removed to Birmingham, where until the close of his life he was pastor of the Church of the Messiah . While in Glasgow his interest was awakened in geology by the perusal of A . C . Ramsay's Geology of the Isle of Arran, and from 1855 onwards he devoted his leisure to the pursuit of this science . He became an authority on glacial geology, and wrote much, especially in conjunction with David Robertson, on the post-tertiary fossiliferous beds of Scotland (Trans . Geol . Soc . Glasgow) . He also prepared for the British Association a valuable series of Reports (1873–1892) on the erratic Blocks of England, Wales and Ireland . In con-junction with David Robertson and G .

S .

Brady he wrote the Monograph of the Post Tertiary Entomostraca of Scotland, &c. for the Palaeontographical Society (1874); and he edited H . Carvill Lewis' Papers and Notes on the Glacial Geology of Great Britain and Ireland, issued posthumously (1894) . He died at Edgbaston, Birmingham, on the 1st of October 1893 . See H . W . Crosskey: his Life and Work, by R . A . Armstrong (with chapter on his geological work by Prof . C . Lapworth, 1895) .