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THOMAS WEBSTER (1773-1844)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 464 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:WEBSTER (1773-1844)  , See also:British geologist, was See also:born in the See also:Orkney Isles in 1773, and was educated at See also:Aberdeen . He subsequently went to See also:London and studied See also:architecture, the Royal Institution in See also:Albemarle See also:Street being built from his See also:design . In 1826 he was appointed See also:house-secretary and See also:curator to the See also:Geological Society of London, and for many years he rendered important services in editing and illustrating the Transactions of the Society . In 1841-1842 he was See also:professor of See also:geology in University See also:College, London . He was distinguished for his researches on the See also:Tertiary formations of the Isle of See also:Wight, where he recognized the occurrence of both fresh-See also:water and marine strata; he continued his observations on the mainland of See also:Hampshire, and subsequently in See also:Dorsetshire, where he described the Purbeck and See also:Portland rocks . To him See also:Sir See also:Henry C . See also:Englefield (1752—1822) was indebted for the geological descriptions and the effective geological views and sections of the Isle of Wight and See also:Dorset that enriched his Description of the See also:Principal Picturesque Beauties, Antiquities and Geological Phenomena of the Isle of Wight (1816) . The See also:mineral Websterite was named after him . He died in London on the 26th of See also:December 1844 .

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