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David Hiram Williams

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Williams published a map, plus horizontal and vertical sections, of the Damoodah coalfield in December 1847. Detailed reports of his work in India, with recommendations for introducing iron works, were published posthumously in London and then Calcutta.
42:. D.H.Williams is acknowledged as sole or joint surveyor on numerous 1st edition geological maps and sections of England and Wales, from Pembrokeshire to Somerset, and Flintshire to Shropshire. 30:, Swansea, on 5 October 1812, the second son of David William and Hannah. His father had progressed from being a labourer to mineral surveying, and the help father and his son gave 242: 88:
David was the only name given at baptism, and was not expanded in his signature. Indeed, use of 'Hiram' has led to confusion with a younger brother of that name.
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On 4 February 1848, Williams was appointed the "Geological Surveyor of the Geological Survey of India". He died of fever at
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A geological report on the Kymore Mountains, the Ramghur coal fields and on the manufacture of iron &c.
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as 'Surveyor of coal districts and superintendent of coal works, Bengal' (between
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with mapping coal in the Swansea area was probably a large factor in
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Native Talent - a Williams Family of Early Victorian Swansea
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A short video about Williams' work in India in the 1840s
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Geological Survey of India
Llangyfelach
William Logan
Henry de la Beche
Ordnance Geological Survey
East India Company
Calcutta
Benares
Joseph Hooker
Hazareebaugh
Geoscientist, Sep 2013
Pioneers of the British Geological Survey
A short video about Williams' work in India in the 1840s
Himalayan Journals
Allen's Indian Mail Vol VII No 117 London Monday, 22 January 1849 p41
map in Bavarian State Library
(horizontal) sections 1 & 2 in BSL
(horizontal) sections 3 & 4 in BSL
(vertical) section 5 in BSL
A geological report on the Damoodah Valley J & H Cox (1850)
A geological report on the Kymore Mountains, the Ramghur coal fields and on the manufacture of iron &c. Bengal Military Orphan Press, (1852)
Categories
1812 births
1848 deaths
Welsh geologists

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