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'''Alexander Henry Green''' ([[October 10]], [[1832]] - [[1896]]), [[England|English]] [[geologist]], son of the Rev. Thomas Sheldon Green, master of the [[Ashby Grammar School]], was born at [[Maidstone]]. |
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He was educated partly at his father's school, [[Ashby-de-la-Zouch]], and afterwards at [[Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge]], where he graduated as sixth wrangler in 1855 and was elected a fellow of his college. In 1861 he joined the [[Geological Survey of Great Britain]], and surveyed large areas of the midland counties, [[Derbyshire]] and [[Yorkshire]]. |
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He wrote (wholly or in part) memoirs on the ''Geology of Banbury'' (1864), of ''Stockport'' (1866), of ''North Derbyshire'' (1869, 2nd ed. 1887), and of the ''Yorkshire Coal-field'' (1878). In [[1874]] he retired from the Geological Survey, having been appointed professor of geology in the [[Yorkshire College]] at Leeds; in 1885 he became also professor of [[mathematics]], while for many years he held the lectureship on geology at the school of military engineering at [[Chatham, Kent|Chatham]]. |
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He was elected fellow of the [[Royal Society]] in 1886, and two years later was chosen professor of geology in the [[university of Oxford]]. In 1892 he was awarded the [[Murchison Medal]] of the [[Geological Society of London]]. |
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His manual of ''Physical Geology'' (1876, 3rd ed. 1882) is an excellent book. |
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He died at Boars Hill, Oxford, on the 19th of August 1896. |
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A portrait of him, with brief memoir, was published in ''Proc. Yorksh. Geol. and Polytechnic Soc.'' xiii. 232. |
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