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SAMUEL HAUGHTON (1821-1897)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 66 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAMUEL See also:HAUGHTON (1821-1897)  , Irish scientific writer, the son of See also:James See also:Haughton (1795-1873), was See also:born at See also:Carlow on the 21st of See also:December 1821 . His See also:father, the son of a Quaker, but himself a Unitarian, was an active philanthropist, a strong supporter of Father See also:Theobald See also:Mathew, a vegetarian, and an See also:anti-See also:slavery worker and writer . After a distinguished career in Trinity See also:College, See also:Dublin, See also:Samuel was elected a See also:fellow in 1844 . IIe was ordained See also:priest in 1847, but seldom preached . In 1851 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:geology in Trinity College, and this See also:post he held for See also:thirty years . He began the study of See also:medicine in 1859, and in 1862 took the degree of M.D. in the university of Dublin . He was then made registrar of the Medical School, the status of which he did much to improve, and he represented the university on the See also:General Medical See also:Council from 1878 to 1896 . He was elected F.R.S. in 1858, and in course of See also:time See also:Oxford conferred upon him the hon. degree of D.C.L., and See also:Cambridge and See also:Edinburgh that of LL.D . He was a See also:man of remarkable knowledge and ability, and he communicated papers on widely different subjects to various learned See also:societies and scientific See also:journals in See also:London and Dublin . He wrote on the See also:laws of See also:equilibrium and See also:motion of solid and fluid bodies (1846), on See also:sun-See also:heat, terrestrial See also:radiation, See also:geological climates and on tides . He wrote also on the granites of See also:Leinster and See also:Donegal, and on the cleavage and See also:joint-planes in the Old Red See also:Sandstone of See also:Waterford (18J7-1858) . He was See also:president of the Royal Irish See also:Academy from 1886 to 1891, and for twenty years he was secretary of the Royal Zoological Society of See also:Ireland .

He died in Dublin on the 31st of See also:

October 1897 .

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