The Society was inaugurated on 13 November 1807 at a dinner at the Freemasons Tavern, which stood at the site of the modern Connaught Rooms, Great Queen Street, Covent Garden.
There were thirteen founder members:
- Arthur Aikin (1773-1854)
- William Allen (1770-1843)
- William Babington (1756-1833)
- Humphry Davy (1778-1829)
- Comte Jacques-Louis de Bournon (1751-1825)
- James Franck (d. 1843)
- George Bellas Greenough (1778-1855)
- Richard Knight (1768-1844)
- James Laird (d.1840)
- James Parkinson (1755-1824)
- William Hasledine Pepys (1775-1856)
- Richard Phillips (1778-1851)
- William Phillips (1773-1828)[1]
Past Presidents
- 1807 - 1813 George Bellas Greenough
- 1813 - 1815 Hon Henry Grey Bennet
- 1815 - 1816 William Blake
- 1816 - 1818 Dr John MacCulloch
- 1818 - 1820 George Bellas Greenough
- 1820 - 1822 Rt Hon Earl Compton, afterwards 2nd Marquess of Northampton
- 1822 - 1824 Dr William Babington
- 1824 - 1826 Rev William Buckland
- 1826 - 1827 Dr John Bostock
- 1827 - 1829 Dr William Henry Fitton
- 1829 - 1831 Rev Adam Sedgwick
- 1831 - 1833 Roderick Impey Murchison
- 1833 - 1835 George Bellas Greenough
- 1835 - 1837 Charles Lyell
- 1837 - 1839 Rev William Whewell
- 1839 - 1841 Rev William Buckland
- 1841 - 1843 Roderick Impey Murchison
- 1843 - 1845 Henry Warburton
- 1845 - 1847 Leonard Horner
- 1847 - 1849 Sir Henry Thomas De la Beche
- 1849 - 1851 Charles Lyell
- 1851 - 1853 William Hopkins
- 1853 - 1854 Edward Forbes
- 1854 - 1856 William John Hamilton
- 1856 - 1856 Daniel Sharpe
- 1856 - 1858 Col Joseph Elliston Portlock, RE
- 1858 - 1860 John Phillips
- 1860 - 1862 Leonard Horner
- 1862 - 1864 Andrew Crombie Ramsay
- 1864 - 1866 William John Hamilton
- 1866 - 1868 Warrington Wilkinson Smyth
- 1868 - 1870 Thomas Henry Huxley
- 1870 - 1872 Joseph Prestwich
- 1872 - 1874 George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll
- 1874 - 1876 John Evans
- 1876 - 1878 Peter Martin Duncan
- 1878 - 1880 Henry Clifton Sorby
- 1880 - 1882 Robert Etheridge
- 1882 - 1884 John Whitaker Hulke
- 1884 - 1886 Rev Thomas George Bonney
- 1886 - 1888 John Wesley Judd
- 1888 - 1890 William Thomas Blanford
- 1890 - 1892 Sir Archibald Geikie
- 1892 - 1894 Wilfrid Hudleston Hudleston
- 1894 - 1896 Henry Woodward
- 1896 - 1898 Dr Henry Hicks
- 1898 - 1900 William Whitaker (? [2])
- 1900 - 1902 Jethro Justinian Harris Teall
- 1902 - 1904 Charles Lapworth
- 1904 - 1906 John Edward Marr
- 1906 - 1908 Sir Archibald Geikie
- 1908 - 1910 William Johnson Sollas
- 1910 - 1912 William Whitehead Watts [3]
Engineering Geology by W. H. Penning
The following links lead to the series of articles on Engineering Geology written by William Henry Penning for The Engineer in 1879.
- (No. I) : The Engineer 1879/01/10.
- (No. II) : The Engineer 1879/02/07.
- (No. III) : The Engineer 1879/03/07.
- (No. IV) : The Engineer 1879/03/21.
- (No. V) : The Engineer 1879/04/11.
- (No. VI) : The Engineer 1879/06/06.
- (No. VII) : The Engineer 1879/06/27.
- (No.VIII) : The Engineer 1879/07/25.
- (No. IX) : The Engineer 1879/08/22.
See Also
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Sources of Information
- ↑ http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/en/About/History
- ↑ The Engineer 1898/04/29
- ↑ http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/en/About/History/Past%20Presidents