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Mike Horne FGS

Unfinished Works

This is unfinished work that has not been edited or peer reviewed by the Society.

Some biographical and bibliographical notes on amateur contributers to the study of the geology of East Yorkshire.

 Compiled by Mike Horne (2005)

 [ For the purpose of this paper I have defined an amateur as an individual who's study of East Yorkshire geology was for private interest and unpaid. So I have excluded University academics and their research students, and local school teachers who use the area in their teaching. But I have included professionals who began their geological studies as amateurs in Eats Yorkshire. Also this paper ignores those who have collected and studied the rocks and fossils but have not published and research. ]

 Donald Beveridge.

 Along with close friend Harry Thompson designed the shelter for Rifle Butts SSSI.

 W S Bisat  F R S

 First lectured to Hull G S in 1920. Joined Hull Geological Society in 1920 when he lived at Collingham near Leeds. President of the Hull G S 1927-29. Retired to the Hull area. Died 14th May 1973.

Research interests - Carboniferous Goniatites and the Tills of Holderness.

References:

Catt J A & P A Madgett 1981. The work of W S Bisat FRS on the Yorkshire coast. P119-136 of  Neale J W & J Flenley 1981 The Quaternary in Britain Pergamon Press, 267pp.

Versey H C 1973. William S Bisat 1886-1973. Naturalist p 113.

 Samual Chadwick

Collection in Hull Museums before WW2.

 Rev E Maule Cole MA FGS 1833-1911.

 Local Secretary of the Yorkshire Geological Society, Joint Geological Secretary of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, joint Vice President of the Hull Geological Society from 1888 until his death. Became a fellow of the Geological Society in 1889.

Vicar of Wetwang. Buried in the Churchard at Wetwang with his wife the Lady Philadelphia.

 Publications:-

 Cole E M 1883. Geological rambles in Yorkshire Simpkin, Marshall & Co. London., 112pp

Cole E M 1886. Notes on the geology of the Hull Barnsley and West Riding Junction Railway and Dock. Vi + 60pp. M C Peck, Hull.

 W H Crofts  born 1861, died 19 Dec 1935 aged 74

William Hastings Crofts

Early member of the Hull Geological Society, Treasurer 1890-1903, Librarian 1890-1903, President 1903-5, Vice President 1906-1909 and 1932-1936, joint-Secretary 1905-1931 and Recorder.  Worked for architects in Hull - erecting Hymers College, the Grammar School at Bridlington and other buildings.  Research interests - boulder clay, peat etc around Hull and Chalk.

 Publications:

1894. [Boulders at] Cottingham. Transactions of the Hull Geological Society 1, 7 and Naturalist (for 1894) 302.

1897. [Boulder of Shap Granite at] Atwick. Transactions of the Hull Geological Society 3, 8 and Naturalist (for 1897) 74.

1898. Notes on the post-glacial deposits of Hull and district. Transactions of the Hull Geological Society 4, 36.

1899. Post-Archaen Granite from Angermland [at Easington]. Naturalist (1899) 15.

1900. The Upper flintless Chalk at Beverley. Transactions of the Hull Geological Society 5, 27.

1900. [Rhomb porphyry at] Brantingthorpe. Naturalist (1900) 356.

1901. Notes on sections exhibited during the excavation of the Alexandra Dock extension, Hull. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 14, 245-52. And abstract in Report of the British Association for 1900 764-5.

[anonymously] 1902. Pocket map of the geology and flora of the East Riding of Yorkshire. A Brown and Sons, Hull.

1902. [boulders at] Brantingthorpe. Naturalist (1902) 30.

1903. Notes on the Alexandra Dock extension, Hull. Transactions of the Hull Geological Society 5, 57-62.

1906. Notes on the indications of a raised beach at Hessle. Transactions of the Hull Geological Society 6, 58-64.

1922. Sections made during the excavation of the King George Dock, Hull. Transactions of the Hull Geological Society 6, 232-7.

 References

 Sheppard T 1937. In Memoriam. W H Crofts. ?Naturalist?

 - 1937. [Obituray] W H Crofts. Transactions of the Hull Geological Society 7, 164-6

 C G Danford died 1928 aged 85.

Lived at Reighton Hall. Studied Speeton Clay.

 Publications:

1906. Notes in the belemnites of the Speeton Clays. Transactions of the Hull Geological Society 6, 1-14.

1906. Naturalist (1906) 330-1.

1906. The "Shell Bed" at Speeton. Naturalist (1906) 252.

1906. Rare Speeton Clay fossils. Naturalist (1906) 214.

1907. Notes on the Speeton Ammonites. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 16, 101-114, pl 1914. [Abstracts in Geological Magazine 3, 520-1; Naturalist 330-1; Report of the British Association for 1906 560-1]

 Lynden Emery MSc.

Born in Lancashire Lynden came to Hull University to study Biology. He then taught biology at Wilberforce 6th Form College. His interest in geology was stimulated by his friend Kenneth Fenton who persuaded him to join the Hull Geological Society in 1969. He has been a committee member since and was President in  1974-7 and 1987-1990 And an editor for Humberisde Geologist. He studied for a master's degree under the supervision of Prof. John Neale concentrating on the gastropods and palaeoecology. He taught adult education classes in geology for the WEA and University of Hull in the 1990s. He has donated his collection of Speeton Clay fossils to Hull Museums. His wife Ann was the honorary auditor of the Hull G S accounts for a number of years.  Moved to Castle Carey in Somerset in 2002. Also a keen railway modeller producing models with geologically correct backgrounds.

 Publications:

1978. A study of the palaeoecology of the benthic rnacrofauna of the Speeton Clays with particular reference to the gastropod and bivalve molluscs. Unpub. M.Sc. thesis, University of Hull. 448pp.

Emery L, M Horne, S Mitchell & F Whitham 1995. The geology of the Market Weighton By-pass. Humberside Geologist 11, 25-33.

 Collection: - Hull and East Riding Museum

 W C Ennis BSc died Sept 1937 aged 61. He taught at the Boulevard Senior School. Lived at 135 Albert Avenue, Hull. President of the Hull Geological Society 1917-19 and Excursion Secretary 1919-1935.

Collection in Hull Museums before WW2.

.Publications:

1925. Summary of excursions 1922-24. Transactions of the Hull Geological Society 6, 293-4.

1927. The clays on the foreshore at South Ferriby, Lincs. Transactions of the Hull Geological Society 7,

1928. Ammonites from the Yorkshire Chalk. Naturalist (1928) 335.

1929. Zones of the Yorkshire Chalk. Transactions of the Hull Geological Society 7, 70-75.

1932. Geological work in the Humber area 1928-31. Transactions of the Hull Geological Society 7, 77-9.

1932. The upper beds of the Speeton Clay. Transactions of the Hull Geological Society 7, 80-83.

1934. The variation of Echincorys in Yorkshire. Transactions of the Hull Geological Society 7, 112-4.

1934. Geological work in the Humber area 1931-4. Transactions of the Hull Geological Society 7, 106-11.

1937. The upper beds of the Speeton Clay. Transactions of the Hull Geological Society 7, 130-7.

 Kenneth Fenton.

 Taught biology at Hull Grammar School from 1953 and then Hull College. Wrote a biology school textbook but it was not published. Joined Hull Geological Society in 1953 when living at 9 Queensway, Cottingham. Later moved to a bungalow at 17 Mill Walk in Cottingham. President of the Hull Geological Society 1961-1964, Vice President 1968-1973 and 1985, and Secretary 1973-1985.

 Geological Research interests were mainly Jurassic plants and the Quaternary.

 Collection - in Hull Museums: Jurassic plants; Red chalk fossils from Speeton and South Ferriby; Speeton Clay fossils. Some specimens on display at Hull and East Riding Material.

Some material still at Hull College.

May be a few specimens in family hands.

Archive - in Hull Museums - Catalogue of collection

 References:

Chicken E, 1988. Kenneth Fenton. .  Humberside Geologist 6, 3-4.

Emery L, M Horne & F Whitham 1986, In Memoriam - Kenneth Fenton B.Sc. 1924-1985. Humberside Geologist 5, 3.

Horne M 1988, Kenneth Fenton and the Hull Geological Society.  Humberside Geologist 6, 7-8.

 C Green:

 Worked at the waterworks in Hull area. Secretary of the Hull G S 1934-1953. Society's library was moved to his office at one stage after the war, before being passed on the George de Boer and then the University Library.

 Archives - Hull Geological Society Archives in Hull Museums: Unpublished papers,

 Publications:

Green C [1949] 1992. Water resources of the Yorkshire Chalk. Humberside Geologist 10, 44-52.

 Alfred Harker FRS

Born in Hull in 1859. Died in 1939.

President of the Geological Society (London), Hull Geological Society and Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. Recipient of the Murchison and Wollaston Medals of the Geological Society (London). Vice -President of the Hull Geological Society from 1893-1925 and 1929-1940.

Most famous for his research outside east Yorkshire and his text books "Petrology for Students" first published in 1895 and reprinted 8 times, "Natural History of Igneous Rocks" 1909 and "Metamorphism" 1932, reprinted 3 times. Gave several lectures to Hull Geological Society in the early days of the Society.

His contributions to East Yorkshire geology were his Bibliographies from 1888 to 1914 .....

Got a job with the Scottish Geological Survey in 1895. Later a lecturer at St John's College and Sedgewick Museum.

 References:

Rastall R H, 1939. In memoriam Alfred Harker. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 24, 73-75.

 Publications:

 Ron Harrison:

 Joined Hull Geological Society in 1967. Vice President 1990-1994.  Wife Jean also a member. Lived at 167 Beverley Road, before moving to ... Has inspired many local geologists to take an interest in the erratic boulders and urban geology around Hull.

 Collection: private, concentrating on glacial erratics, and bricks and tiles. [note 2021 - collection donated to Hornsea Museum after his death]

 Publications:

Harrison R & M Horne 1991. A Geological Walk in the city of Hull. Humberside Geologist 8, 21-25

Harrison R & Horne M 1992. The East Yorkshire Boulder Committee, report for the years 1987 to 1991. Humberside Geologist 10, 18-22.

 G W Lamplugh FRS

George William Lamplugh FRS. Born in Driffield in 1859, Lived at Wellington Road, Bridlington Quay; London and the St. Albans. Died in 1926.

President of the Geological Society (London), Hull Geological Society, Yorkshire Geological Society and Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. Vice President of Hull G S 1893-1923. Worked for the Geological Survey from 1892 to 1920, mainly in south-east England and the Isle of Man, becoming Assistant Director. Received the Bigsby Medal of the Geological Society (London) in 1901. Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1905.

Published many articles in the Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society on - glacial beds of Filey Bay, Speeton Shell Bed, Bridlington and Dimlington Shell Beds (=Bridlington Crag), Buried Cliff at Sewerby,

Archive: in Hull Museums - notebook no, 7 1890-1921 "Geological notes - glacial"

 Publications include :

Lamplugh G W & P A Pavlov 1892. Agriles de Speeton at leurs equivalents, 212pp, Imprimerie de l'University Imperiale, Moscow.

 Cecil W Mason: Lived at 15 Park Avenue, Hull.

Archive - several albums of photographs in Hull Museums, from 1897 to 1957. Excursion Secretary of the Hull Geological Society 1936-1957.

 Archive - in Hull Museums - correspondence - 1930's; report of field excursion 1937.

 References:

De Boer, G 1988. The Hull Geological Society 1945-1962. Humberside Geologist 6, 5-6.

 Sidney Melmore 1894-1969. elected as Honorary member of the Hull Geol Soc in 1967. Though listed in Humberside Geologist as living at Acombe, York, in 1975!

  J R Mortimer:

One of the Mortimer bothers and creator of the Mortimer Museum in Driffield - the collection was bought by Hull Museums, but was largely lost during the war. The collection was at one time housed in the City Hall, and part of that building is still called the Mortimore Galleries.

Archive - Hull Museums - notebook

 TB Parks

Closely asscociated with (the older) Shilito (q.v.). both live in Lincolnshire. Studied microfossils.

 Archives - some letters in Hull Museums; eight photograph albums; Hull Geological Society 50th anniversary medal.

References:

Boylan P J 1966. The geological material in the T. B. Parks Collection. Hull Museums Publication no. 216.

Boylan P J 1980. The geological material in the T B Parks collection, Kingston-upon-Hull. Humberside Geologist  3, 8-11.

J F Robinson

James Fraser Robinson

Founder member of the Hull Geological Society. Died 1927.

 Publications :

? 1904? Flora of the East Riding of Yorkshire [including a geological map]. A Brown & Sons, Hull.

 Archive

Notebooks (started 1888, 1892, 1920s) in Hull Museums.

George Sheppard DSc FGS - brother of Thomas Sheppard. Received BSc degree from University of London in 1914. President of the Hull Geological Society 1935-1936. Worked as a geologist in Canada and later became the State Geologist of the Republic of Equador.  Attended the 75th Anniversary Dinner of the Hull Geological Society. Died in 1965.

 Tom Sheppard - was the curator of Hull Museums.

Thomas Sheppard  FGS, ALS, MSc, FZS, 1876 to 1945.

Editor of the "Naturalist" for 30 years. President of the Yorkshire Geological Society in 1932. Received honorary MSc from University of Leeds in 1915, when he was also President of the Yorkshire Naturalists Union and they celebrated their 50th anniversary.

Lived in Victoria Avenue, Hull, and later at 42 Anlaby Park Road.

He was the oldest child of a large family. He left school at an early age and became a clerk for the North Eastern Railway. He used his free pass to travel at weekends to study the geology of the region. He joined the Hull Geological Society on 19th September 1893, though later claimed to be a founding member. In 1902 Hull City Council bought the museum of the Hull Lit & Phil and Thomas Sheppard became the first curator. Apparently there were two people interviewed and Tom got the job because he promised to keep to a tight budget, a promise he never kept! By the time he retired there were seven museums! His sister Mary Sheppard was a school teacher in Hull and lived to be ??100. His brother George became a professional geologist (q.v.). One of his assistants was Thomas Stainforth also a keen geologist and naturalist. Thomas Stainforth left to teach in Hull; his son Robert Stainforth (q.v.) became an eminent micropalaeontologist working in the oil industry. Tom Sheppard retired in 1941, the Museum in Albion Street was destroyed by bombing on 24th June 1943.

 Brigg boat found in 1905.

He resigned as Secretary of the YNU 1911 and was made an Honorary Life Member [Naturalist for 1912, p30-1] President of the YNU in 1914 and gave his presidential address at the AGM in Leeds. Received honorary MSc from the University of Leeds on July 3rd 1915  along with other officers of the YNU [Naturalist p181].

 Major local geological publications: Geological Rambles in East Yorkshire 1903, Bibliography of Yorkshire Geology 1915, 629pp.

 Tom Sheppard was real "character" I suspect. There seems to be two sides to Tom. He encouraged many young people to take up geology, archaeology and the natural sciences, he was a great poplulariser of science and a prolific writer. He used any opportunity to get the museums, science and his name into the papers. A true polymath but he was never really an expert in any particular field of geology. He encouraged young amateur geologists, giving them advice and  books, and putting them in contact with experts. He had a close relationship with his sister Mary; she said that he relied on her to proof read his early works.

He was infamous as a collector and curator, his visits prompting other curators to lock rarer specimens away. Percy Fry Kendell is said to he greeted Tom at a meeting "Hello Sheppard, how's thieving?". I have heard hints that on occasions he was happy to plagiarise colleagues' work. Rambles certainly includes a map by Crofts and pictures from the Transactions of the HGS and Harker published bibliographies in the Naturalist for several years.

He was a real opportunist: was it a coincidence that he was a Vice President(?) of the Yorkshire Naturalists Union in their 50th Anniversary Year when the University of Leeds gave Honorary Degrees to its Officers or was it really in recognition of the Bibliography? He was President of the Hull Geological Society in their 50th Anniversary year and privately commissioned a celebratory medal with his head on one side and the ammonite Metanrioceras sheppardi on the reverse! There is no mention of the medal in Society records.

In later life he seems to have had financial and drink problems, and there is no mention of his wife and son in publications about him. The destruction of the Albion Street Museum and the loss of the collections seems to have hastened his death. There do not seem to be many obituaries to Sheppard, I wonder if that was just due to the shortage of paper at the end of the war?

 Archive:

Hull University Library - Sheppard's bound copies of the Naturalist with added notes and press cuttings.

Leeds University - collection of reprints and pamphlets donated in 1933.

Hull Museums - desk.

 Publications:

TOO NUMEROUS TO LIST HERE

 References:

Conway B 1986. Some reminiscences of Tom Sheppard.  Humberside Geologist 5, 11.

Horne M  1986, Tom Sheppard "Hyper-Scientist".  Humberside Geologist 5, 5-6

Horne M 1999. Another letter from Mary Sheppard.  Humberside Geologist 12 ,11

Melmore S 1946. Obituary :Thomas Sheppard (1876-1945). North Western Naturalist 20, 75-

Schadla-Hall, T, 1989. Tom Sheppard. Hull's great collector. Highgate Publications Ltd., Beverley. 38pp.

Sheppard M 1986. Extracts from a letter...October 1984. Humberside Geologist 5, 11.

Versey H C, 1945. In Memoriam: Thomas Sheppard 1876-1945. Naturalist p74-75.

 C F B Shillito

 Lived at Brocklesby, North Lincolnshire. Joined HGS in 1933. President of the Hull Geological Society 1939-1947

 Archives:

In Hull Museums - correspondence from T Sheppard, Geological Survey, A S Kennard; correspondence with J F Musham about sub-fossil molluscs of Lincolnshire 1933-44; six notebooks; photographs; hand-written drafts of papers, including Presidential addresses to Hull Geological Society 1942 and 1944.

In Hull Geological Society Archives in Hull Museums - unpublished papers and microfossil samples.

Publications:

1946. Geology [Section Report]. Trans. Lines. Nat. Union 11, 127.

- 1991. The Cretaceous beds of North Lincolnshire and some correlations of those of East Lincolnshire and the counties to the North and South. Humberside Geologist 8, 8-11.

 References:

Horne M, 1991. C F B Shillito.  Humberside Geologist 8, 6-7 +11.

 Robert M Stainforth.

 Son of Thomas Stainforth and brother of Gwyneth (who later married the brother of George De Boer). Childhood friend of the Wright brothers. Collection donated to CW & EV Wright.  Educated at Hymers College and the Royal School of Mines. Left England in 1938 to work in Trinidad, Bolivia and other South American countries. Became a micropalaeontologist in the oil industry of international repute. Retired to Vancouver island , British Columbia.

 Publications:

Stainforth R M, 1931. Recent finds in the Kellaways Rock of South Cave, Yorkshire. Naturalist 87 and Hull Museums Publication no. 172.

Stainforth R M, 1939. Uintaccrinus westfalicus (Schluter) in the Yorkshire Senonian. Proceedsings of the Geologists' Association 50, 101-

Stainforth R M, 1980. Recollections. Humberside Geologist 3 (4-7 not numbered)

 Thomas Stainforth 1882-1942:

After leaving school he worked at Hull Museums, until serving in the forces in 1916. In 1919 he became a peripatetic Nature Study lecturer and then worked at the Hull Technical College. Active member of the Hull Field Naturalists Club and teacher of a geology night class. Lived at 145 Westbourne Avenue Hull, married to Dora. Children - Robert Stainforth schoolboy friend of Ted and Willy Wright and later a micropalaeontologist living and working in Vancouver. Gwynneth, married brother of George de Boer and was a notable local naturalist.

Joined Hull G S in 1910.

 Archives - in Hull Museums: hand-written book "The geological history of Kelsey Hill"; typed resume of the paper read to Hull Geological Society 23 January 1943.

 References:

Walsh G B 1944. Thomas Stainforth B A BSc. Naturalist p 77-78.

 J W Stather FGS

John Walker Stather 1857 to 1938.

 Founder member of the Hull Geological Society and its Secretary or President for over 49 years (he died just before the 50th anniversary). He joined the Yorkshire Geological Society in 1890 and was their President in 1927 and 1928. Between 1886 and 1906 he contributed to the Naturalist as part of the Yorkshire Erratic Blocks Committee and  between 1892 and 1910 as part of the Yorkshire Coast Erosion Committee. He lived at 36 Newland Park and ran a wallpaper manufacturing business.

Hull G S delegate to British Association meetings on several occasions. Very involved in the excavations at Bielsbeck, near Market Weighton, funded by the B.A. Received the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society (London) in 1910 in recognition of his research into the Quaternary.. He was the Treasurer of the United Methodist Church in Stepney, Hull. He died on 14th May 1938 aged 82 leaving a widow, one son and two daughters.

Collection: donated to Hull Museums, lost in World War 2.

 Refernces:

Charleworth A C 1939. In memoriam John Walker Stather 1857-1938. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 23, 317-8, pl. xvi.

Sheppard T 1939. In memoriam J W Stather FGS. Naturalist p 182-3.

C Thompson FGS

Taught at Hymers College in Hull until 1925 when he moved to Tunbridge Wells.

Collector of Speeton ammonites and Liassic ammonites from the Boulder Clays.

 D W Toyne:

David joined Hull Geological Society in 1929. Killed in motorcycle accident in 1935.

Studied Chalk pits of Yorkshire Wolds, listing fossils seen. Collection and field notebook - donated to CW & EV Wright.

 Publication:

1932. South Cave [geological notes]. Naturalist (1932) 344-5.

 Archive - in Hull Geological Society archives - notebook.

 F F Walton

Dr Frank Fielder Walton FGS 1860 to 1925.

Founder member of the Hull Geological Society and President for the first 12 years. Became a fellow of the Geological Society in 1889. Lived at 19 Charlotte Street, Hull.

Member of the "Erratic Blocks Committee", formed in 1892.

Collection: donated to Hull Museums, lost in World War 2.

Published works:

1886 Geology of the district between Market Weighton and the Humber.

Walton F F [1888] 1992. Report of Excursion to S Ferriby and Barton. August. 18th 1888. Humberside Geologist 10, 2-3.

 Archive - Hull Geological Society Archives in Hull Museums - reports of field meetings.

 Felix Whitham DSc

Born 23rd September 192?

Became an apprentice in the motor trade and remembers having to chauffeur J W Stather and his wife on quiet afternoons. Became interested in geology but his interest was interrupted by WW2 when he was an engineer in North Africa. Re-entered the motor trade and eventually became General Manager of Kennings in Hull, a major Rover dealership. He resumed his interest in geology, initially concentrating on the Jurassic rocks of South cave and North Newbald, and later developing an interest in the Carstone and Chalk. In 1961 He saw an advert in the (Hull) Daily Mail about the reforming of the Hull Geological Society, which had ceased to hold meetings for 3 years. He joined the Society on 18th October 1961, whilst living at 125 Westlands Road, Hull. He became Treasurer of the Society in 1965. In the 1980s he encouraged members to take part in a Centenary project to log the stratigraphy of the Yorkshire Chalk, which led to his lecture to the Yorkshire Geological Society at the British Geological Survey at Keyworth and the publication of two papers in the Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society in 1991 and 1993. Felix was awarded an Honorary DSc by Hull University in 1992. Has always helped and encouraged you geologists and has published several articles in Humberside Geologist.

 Collections -

Private collection.

Hull Museums - fossils from the Kellaways of South Cave 1965; several specimens on permanent loan for present public display in Hull and East Riding Museum.

References:

anon 1992. Collector of the year, 1991. [F Whitham incl. Photo.] Geologists' Association Circular 890, 8-9.

anon 1992. Honorary Graduands December 1992. [incl. F Whitham] Bulletin [of the University of Hull] 12, 1+14.

 Published works:

Whitham F& Rockett T 1991. Field Meeting 14th July 1990. Humberside Geologist 8, 31-32.

Whitham F 1991. The stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous Ferriby, Welton and Burnham Formations north of the Humber, north east England. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 48, 227-254.

Whitham F, Horne M & L Emery. 1991. The stratigraphy of the chalk at Thixendale. Humberside Geologist 8, 33-34.

Whitham F 1992. Itinerary XIII South landing to Sewerby, pp 103-8 of Rawson & Wright (eds)

Whitham F 1992. The geology and fauna of the South Cave Station Quarry. Humberside Geologist 10, 54-58.

Whitham F 1992. The geology of the Rugby Portland Cement Co. Middlegate Quarry at South Ferriby. Humberside Geologist 10, 4-7.

Whitham F 1993. The Stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous Flamborough Chalk Formation, North of the Humber, north-east England. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 49, 235-238.

Whitham F 1994. Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks of the market Weighton area. Chap 15, pp 142-9 of Scrutton C (ed)

Whitham F 1995. The Cretaceous stratigraphy of the Market Weighton area. Humberside Geologist 11, 34-38.

Whitham F 1995. The geology and fauna of Filey Brigg, North Yorkshire. Humberside Geologist 11, 50-53.

Emery L, M Horne, S Mitchell & F Whitham 1995. The geology of the Market Weighton By-pass. Humberside Geologist 11, 25-33.

Whitham F 1999. Field meeting to Langtoft Chalk pits. Humberside Geologist 12, 64-5.

Whitham F 2000. Report of Hull Geological Society field trip to Derbyshire. Humberside Geologist 13, 22-23

Whitham F, M Horne & T Rockett 2000. The Glacial Geology of Dimlington High Cliff. Humberside Geologist 13, 53-56

Whitham F 2000. Walton Street and the Hull Geological Society. Humberside Geologist 13, 68

 Ted and Willy Wright:

Claud William Wright MA, DSc, FGS and Edward V Wright MA DSc MBE.

Inspired and helped by Tom Sheppard.  They took an early interest in geology as schoolboys along with Robert Stainforth. They lived at Tower House, North Ferriby and joined the Hull G S in 1930. Their interest in the Yorkshire continued when they continued the research of D W Toyne who was killed in motorcycle crash in 1935. This resulted in the publication in 1942 of the Chalk of the Yorkshire Wolds, in an incomplete form because of the War. After the War Willy Wright had a long career in the Civil Service in London, before retiring to Beaminster, near Bridport, in Dorset. Ted was director for Reckitts and Coleman in Hull and lived in Walkington until he was transferred to London; he later retired to Stroud in Gloucestershire. Willy became an internationally renowned expert on Upper Cretaceous ammonites, echinoids and starfish. He contributed to the Treatise on Invertebrate Palaeontology, and wrote Pal Soc. monographs on chalk ammonites with Prof. Jim Kennedy and echinoids with Andrew Smith. Willy was President of the Geologists' Association 1957-8. Ted Wright was the President of the Hull Geological Society 1969-71. They both became Honorary Members of the Hull G S in 1975. Willy retired from his career in the Civil Service in 1979. They were awarded Honorary D Sc degrees by Hull University in 1987. Ted died in 2001.

 References:

Hancock J M 1989. Contributions to geology by D Curry and C W Wright. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 100, 243-9.

Anon  2001. Heritage explorer will be missed. [death of Dr E V Wright]. Hull Daily Mail Wednesday 23rd May 2001, p4. 

Published works:

Spencer W K 1932. A rare Yorkshire starfish. Transactions of the Hull Geological Society 7, 101-2.

Wright C W 1932. Ammonites johnstoni in East Yorkshire. Naturalist  p316.

Wright C W 1932. A new section in the Actinocamax quadratus zone at White Hill, Bridlington. Naturalist  p324.

Wright C W 1932. Recent geological finds in East Yorkshire. Naturalist  p263.

Wright C W & E V 1933. Some notes on the Holocene deposits at North Ferriby . Naturalist  p210-212.

Wright C W 1935. Chalk Rock fauna in E. Yorks. Geological Magazine 72, 441-2.

Wright C W 1936. Lower Cretaceous at Nettleton, Lincs. Transactions of the Hull Geological Society 7, 159-160.

Wright C W & E V 1936. Recent records and rare species in East Yorkshire Chalk. Transactions of the Hull Geological Society 7, 152-7.

Wright C W & E V 1936. Spines of Yorkshire Chalk Cidarids. Transactions of the Hull Geological Society 7, 158.

Wright C W & E V 1936. The Speeton Clays, E. Yorks. Transactions of the Hull Geological Society 7, 39-141.

Wright C W & E V 1936. Yorkshire Chalk fossils. Transactions of the Hull Geological Society 7, 143-151.

Wright C W & E V 1940. Notes on Cretaceous Asteroidea. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. 96, 231.

Wright C W 1941. Brachiopods from Nettleton, Lincs. Naturalist  p269-270.

Wright C W & E V 1942. The Chalk of the Yorkshire Wolds. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 53, 112-127. [reprinted by the Hull Geological Society in 196?]

Wright C W & E V 1943. Some British Cretaceous echinoids. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 54, 126.

Wright C W & E V 1947. Prehistoric boats from North Ferriby, East Yorkshire. Proceedings of the Prehistory Society 13, 114-138.

Wright C W & E V 1949. The Cretaceous echinoid genera Infulaster Desor and  Hagenowia Duncan. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (12) 2 p 454-74.

Wright C W & E V 1951. A survey of the fossil Cephalopoda of the Chalk of Great Britain. Palaeontographical Society Monograph 41pp.

Wright C W 1967. Notes on Cretaceous Saleniidae. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association  78, 9-25, 2 pl.

Wright CW & J S H Collins 1972. British Cretaceous Crabs. Palaeontographical Society monograph 114pp, 22pl.

Wright CW  1975. The Hauterivian ammonite genus Lyticoceras Hyatt, 1900 and its synonym Endemoceras Thiermann 1963. Palaeontology 18, 607-611.

Wright C W 1979. The ammonites of the English Chalk Rock (Upper Turonian). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History)  31, 281-332.

Wright C W 1984. The Society in the 1930's. Humberside Geologist 4, 2-3.

Wright EV 1990. An East Yorkshire retrospective. Chap 7 of Ellis S & D R Crowther (eds) 1990. Humber perspectives. A region through the ages. Hull University Press. 444pp

Wright C V & E V 1999. Reminiscences of some early collecting in East Yorkshire. Humberside Geologist 12, 73-81 + 2 pl.

Wright E V 1999. Speeton Clay Dinosaurs. Humberside Geologist 12, 10.

Wright EV 2001. Geological rambles of a Tank Officer in World War 2 Humberside Geologist Online

 Collections: in Hull Museums: Speeton Clay fossils collected by E V Wright 1963-5.

The majority of the C W & E V Wright geological collection is in the Natural History Museum, London.

 Ignuandon leg bone from Speeton Clay on loan to Hull Museum.

Archive:

In Hull Museums - Typescript of "Palaeontology and the process of evolution" by C W Wright FGS.

Hull Geological Society Archives in Hull Museums -  unpublished papers by C W Wright.

In Hull Geological Society Archives  - notes for lecture to Hull Geological Society Centenary Meeting; field notebook for "Chalk of the Yorkshire Wolds".

C W Wright's geological library has been donated to Prof. J Kennedy at Oxford University and Andrew Smith at the Natural History Museum.

[note added 2010 -

It is hard to add much to the appreciations of Willy's life and work written by Jim Kennedy.  

Kennedy W J, 2006. C. W. Wright: a most professional amateur. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 117, 9-40.

- 2010. Obituary - Willy Wright. Magazine of the Geologists' Association vol 9, no 2, p 20.

- 2010. Willy Wright 1917-2010. Cretaceous Research (in press 2010) 5pp. ]

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 General references.

Horne M 1986, Past Officers of the Hull Geological Society, 1888 -1985. Humberside Geologist 5, 29-30.

Horne M 1989, The History of the Hull Geological Society.  Humberside Geologist 7. 40pp.

Horne M 1992. A Bibliography of East Yorkshire Geology 1938 to 1988. Humberside Geologist  9, 46 pp.

Horne M 2002. A Bibliography of East Yorkshire Geology 1988 onwards. Web-page http://www.horne28.freeserve.co.uk/eybib.htm

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 Acknowledgements:

I wish to thank the following people for their help and information : Mike Boyd, Patrick Boylan, Lynden Emery, Bill Kennedy, Richard Middleton,  and Felix Whitham.

 

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