Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,701 pages of information and 247,103 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Thomas H. Holland

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Sir Thomas H. Holland

1939 K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E., D.L., D.Sc.Eng., LL.D., F.R.S. Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of Edinburgh. Private Address:. Blackford Brae, Edinburgh. Career: Director, Geological Survey of India, 1903-09; Prof. of Geology, Manchester Univ., 1909-16; Pres., Indian Industrial Comm. and of Indian Munitions Board 1916-19; Member Viceroy's Exec. Council for Commerce and Rlys., 1919-21; Rector, Imperial Coll. of Sc. and Tech., 1922-29; Past Pres.,. Insts. of Mining Engrs., Mining and Metallurgy, Petroleum Tech., and of Geological Soc., Mineralogical Soc., British Assoc. Member Royal Commission on Navy Fuel and Engines, 1911-13; Pres. of Commission on Burma Oilfields, 1908; Adviser to Governments of Colombia and Trinidad; Consultant Geologist, Burma Oil Co.; Hon. Life Member, Inst. Engrs., India; Liverpool Geological Soc. Books: Various memoirs on Geology, Mining, Petrol; "The Mineral Sanction. '

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