Thomas Henry Holland


























Thomas Henry Holland
T H Holland.jpg
Born
22 November 1868 (1868-11-22)

Helston, Cornwall, England
Died
15 May 1947 (1947-05-16) (aged 78)
Alma mater
Royal College of Science
Owens College
Occupation Geologist, university administrator

Sir Thomas Henry Holland KCSI KCIE FRS[1]FRSE LLD (22 November 1868 – 15 May 1947) was a British geologist who worked in India with the Geological Survey of India, serving as its director from 1903 to 1910. He later worked as an educational administrator at Edinburgh University.[2]




Contents






  • 1 Early life


  • 2 Career


  • 3 Death


  • 4 Family


  • 5 References


  • 6 External links





Early life


Thomas Holland was born on 22 November 1868 in Helston, Cornwall,[1] to John Holland and Grace Treloar Roberts who later emigrated to Canada to live in a farm in Springfield, Manitoba.[3]


In 1884, Thomas won a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Science, graduating with a first class degree in Geology. The dean at the Royal College of Science, Thomas Henry Huxley, made a great impression on Holland. He stayed on as an assistant to Professor John Wesley Judd and was awarded a Berkeley Fellowship at Owens College, Manchester, in 1889.[1]



Career


In 1890, Holland was appointed Assistant Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India and curator of the Geological Museum and Laboratory. In 1903, he was appointed Director of the Geological Survey of India and in 1904 he was elected to be a Fellow of the Royal Society. Holland produced the first scientific description of what he named as charnockite from Job Charnock's tombstone near Calcutta which had been brought from somewhere in Madras.[4] Holland continued work on the gneisses of southern India that had earlier been classified by William King and Robert Bruce Foote. Holland reclassified the hypersthene granites as acidic (the charnockites, with the type being from St Thomas Mount), the intermediate, basic, and ultrabasic. In 1908, he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE) for his services to the Geological Survey of India.[1] He returned to Britain in 1910, and in 1912 he was appointed to the Royal Commission on Fuel and Engines.[5][6] He was president of the British Association in 1928–1929.[7]


Under the editorship of Holland a four volume "Provincial Geographies of India" series was published between 1913 and 1923 from the Cambridge University Press.


Holland was Rector of Imperial College London[8] from 1922 to 1929 and Principal of the University of Edinburgh from 1929 to 1944. The Albert Medal of the Royal Society of Arts for 1939 was awarded to Sir Thomas H. Holland, "for his services to the mineral industries". He was also a member of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society.[2]


From 1929 until 1940 he was Principal of Edinburgh University. In 1930 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir James Alfred Ewing, Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, Ralph Allan Sampson and James Hartley Ashworth. He served as the Society's Vice-President from 1932 to 1935. He won the Society's Bruce Preller Prize for 1941.[9]



Death


Holland died unexpectedly at his home in Surbiton on 15 May 1947.[10]



Family


He married twice: firstly in 1896 to Frances Maud Chapman (d.1942); secondly in 1946, aged 78, to Helen Ethleen Verrall.[1]



References





  1. ^ abcde Fermor, L. L. (1948). "Thomas Henry Holland. 1868–1947". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 6 (17): 83. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1948.0021. JSTOR 768913..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ ab "Holland, Sir Thomas Henry". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33945.
    (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)


  3. ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.


  4. ^ A. Raman: The Madras charnockite. Expressbuzz Archived 29 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine, 10 November 2009.


  5. ^ MacLeod, R.M. (2004). "Holland, Sir Thomas Henry (1868–1947)" ((subscription or UK public library membership required)). Dictionary of National Biography.


  6. ^ "No. 28632". The London Gazette. 2 August 1912. pp. 5721–2.


  7. ^ Presidential Address to the British Association Meeting, held at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in 1929


  8. ^ Sir Thomas H. Holland, KCSI, KCIE, DSC, LLD, FRS Archived 16 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine, [[Imperial College, London|]], London, UK.


  9. ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.


  10. ^ Fermor, L. L. (1947). "Sir Thomas Holland, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E., F.R.S". Nature. 160 (4053): 11. doi:10.1038/160011a0..




External links




  • AIM25: Royal Society: Holland, Thomas Henry (1868–1947), AIM25













Academic offices
Preceded by
Alfred Keogh
Rector of Imperial College London
1922–1929
 Succeeded by
Henry Tizard
Preceded by
Sir Alfred James Ewing
Edinburgh University Principals
1929–1944
 Succeeded by
Sir John Fraser









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