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Thomas Henry Holland

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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
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He married twice: firstly in 1896 to Frances Maud Chapman (d.1942); secondly in 1946, aged 78, to Helen Ethleen Verrall.
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for 1939 was awarded to Sir Thomas H. Holland, "for his services to the mineral industries". He was also a member of the
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Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002
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MacLeod, R.M. (2004). "Holland, Sir Thomas Henry (1868–1947)".
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In 1890, Holland was appointed Assistant Superintendent of the
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Presidential Address to the British Association Meeting
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in Geology. The dean at the Royal College of Science,
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Index


Helston
Royal College of Science
Owens College
KCSI
KCIE
FRS
FRSE
Geological Survey of India
Edinburgh University
Helston
Royal College of Science
first class degree
Thomas Henry Huxley
John Wesley Judd
Owens College

Geological Survey of India
Geological Museum
Royal Society
charnockite
Job Charnock
St John's Church
Calcutta
Madras
William King
Robert Bruce Foote
St Thomas Mount
Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire
Geological Survey of India

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