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JOSHUA TRIMMER (1795-1857)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 284 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSHUA See also:TRIMMER (1795-1857)  , See also:English geologist, was See also:born at See also:North Cray in See also:Kent, on the 11th of See also:July 1795 . He was son of See also:Joshua See also:Kirby See also:Trimmer of See also:Brentford, and See also:grandson of Mrs Sarah Trimmer (1741-1810), authoress of the See also:Story of the See also:Robins (1786) . At the See also:age of nineteen he was sent to North See also:Wales to See also:manage a See also:copper-mine for his See also:father; subsequently he was placed in See also:charge of a See also:farm in See also:Middlesex, where the acquired a knowledge of and an See also:interest in soils; in 1825 he became manager (for his father) of See also:slate quarries near See also:Bangor and See also:Carnarvon, and in this See also:district he remained for many years . He discovered the marine shells in the See also:drift of Moel Tryfaen . During the years 1850-1854 he was engaged on the See also:Geological Survey, and surveyed parts of the New See also:Forest in See also:Hampshire . He died in See also:London on the 16th of See also:September 1817 . He published See also:memoirs on the Origin of the Soils which See also:cover the See also:Chalk of Kent; On the See also:Geology of See also:Norfolk, as Illustrating the See also:Laws of the See also:Distribution of Soils (1847); and Proposals for a Geological Survey, specially directed to Agricultural See also:Objects (185o); in this respect he was a See also:pioneer in agricultural geology . He was author also of a useful See also:work See also:Practical Geology and See also:Mineralogy (1841) . Obituary by J . E . See also:Portlock, in Quart . Journ .

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