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SAMUEL WOODWARD (179o-1838)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 805 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAMUEL See also:WOODWARD (179o-1838)  , See also:English geologist and See also:antiquary, was See also:born at See also:Norwich on the 3rd of See also:October 1790 . He was for the most See also:part self-educated . Apprenticed in 1804 to a manufacturer of camlets and bombazines, a See also:taste for serious study was stimulated by his See also:master, See also:Alderman See also:John See also:Herring and by See also:Joseph John See also:Gurney . Becoming interested in See also:geology and See also:archaeology, he began to See also:form the collection which after his See also:death was See also:purchased for the Norwich museum . In 1820 he obtained a clerkship in Gurney's (afterwards See also:Barclay's) See also:bank at Norwich, and See also:Hudson Gurney and See also:Dawson See also:Turner (of See also:Yarmouth), both See also:fellows of the Royal Society, encouraged his scientific See also:work . He communicated to the Archaeologia articles on the See also:round See also:church towers of See also:Norfolk, the See also:Roman remains of the See also:country, &c., and other papers on natural See also:history and geology to the Mag . Nat . Hist. and Phil . Mag . He died at Norwich on the 14th of See also:January 1838 . He was author of A Synoptical Table of See also:British Organic Remains (183o), the first work of its See also:kind in See also:Britain; An Outline of the Geology of Norfolk (1833); and of two See also:works issued posthumously, The Norfolk Topographer's See also:Manual (1842) and The History and Antiquities of Norwich See also:Castle (1847) . His eldest son, See also:Bernard See also:Bolingbroke See also:Woodward (1816–1869), was librarian and keeper of the prints and drawings at See also:Windsor Castle from 186o until his death .

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Samuel Pickworth Woodward (1821–1865), became in 1845 See also:professor of geology and natural history in the Royal Agricultural See also:College, See also:Cirencester, and in 1848 was appointed assistant in the See also:department of geology and See also:mineralogy in the British Museum . He was author of A Manual of the See also:Mollusca (in three parts, 1851, 1853 and 1856) . S . P . Woodward's son, See also:Horace Bolingbroke Woodward (b . 1848), became in 1863 an assistant in the library of the See also:Geological Society, and joined the Geological Survey in 1867, rising to be assistant-director . In 1893–1894 he was See also:president of the Geologists' Association, and he published many important works on geology . Samuel Woodward's youngest son, See also:Henry Woodward (b . 1832) became assistant in the geological department of the British Museum in 1858, and in 1880 keeper of that department . He became F.R.S. in 1873, LL.D . (St See also:Andrews) in 1878, president of the Geological Society of See also:London (1894-1896), and was awarded the See also:Wollaston See also:medal of that society in Ig06 . He published a Monograph of the British Fossil See also:Crustacea, See also:Order Merostomata (Palaeontograph .

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Soc . 1866-1878); A Monograph of Carboniferous See also:Trilobites (See also:Pal . Soc . 1883-1884), and many articles in scientific See also:journals . He was editor of the Geological See also:Magazine from its commencement in 1864 . See Memoir of S . Woodward (with bibliography) in Trans . Norfolk Nat . Soc . (1879), and of S . P . Woodward (with portrait and bibliography), Ibid .

(1882), by H . B . Woodward .

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