Charles Groves

Charles Groves
File:Groves, Charles.jpg
Born	1793
Died	1866
Residence	Wareham
Society Membership membership ASL local secretary left 1866 deceased elected_ASL 1863.06.09

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[report of the council for 1866]: Charles Groves died, on the 15th of May last, at Wareham, in Dorsetshire, aged 73. Mr. Groves was made our local secretary for the district in which he resided on the first formation of the Society. He was a man who helped forward the cause of scientific investigation in his own humble unostentatious way, at a time when the study of natural science was not so popular as at this time. It is to his diligence that we are indebted for much of the information we possess respect- ing the Kimmeridge coal money, and he was well acquainted with the antiquities of his native county. He had at one time a very pretty and useful museum of antiquities found in the neighbourhood, and. a very fair collection of fossils. I believe he was induced, or indeed obliged, to part with many of them before his death. The deceased will long be remembered in his district for the zeal with which he continually strove to diffuse a taste for the study of science ; and, although his efforts met with little apparent success, he had the con- solation of knowing that whenever an eminent antiquary or geologist visited his district, they did not fail to visit him, and there were few who could not be touched by the beautiful simplicity and modesty of the man who, if placed amongst a more congenial and intellectual people, might have done much to forward the cause of physical science.