George Bellas Greenough
George Bellas Greenough
| George Bellas Greenough FRS, FGS | |||||||||||
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| Born | 1778 | ||||||||||
| Died | 1855 | ||||||||||
| Occupation | academic | ||||||||||
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Office Notes
ESL Council 1843-44 Member (maybe President)
ESL Council 1844-45 Vice President
ESL Council 1845-46 Vice President
ESL Council 1846-47 Vice President
ESL Council 1847-48 Vice President
ESL Council 1848-49 Vice President
ESL Council 1849-50 Vice President [delivers address]
ESL Council 1850-51 Member
ESL Council 1851-52 Member
ESL Council 1852-53 Vice President
ESL Council 1853-54 Vice President
ESL Council 1854-55 Vice President [dies Apr 1855]
House Notes
1844.06.22 G.B. Greenough Esq., Captain Grover & Dr King were appointed Delegates to the British Association meeting at York.
1849.04.19 resolved that a Committee be appointed to consider the present condition and future prospects of the Society and that the following gentlemen be elected members of that Committee: Sir Charles Malcolm, William Spence Esq., G.B. Greenough Esq., Joseph Fletcher Esq., Thomas Hodgkin MD, Thomas May Esq., William Ogilby Esq., Dr Latham, and that these form a quorum
1850.03.13 Proposed by Thomas Hodgkin MD, and seconded by William Spence Esq.: That Mr Greenough be requested to deliver the Anniversary Address. Carried unanimously.
1850.03.22 'That a committee consisting of Mr Dunn, Mr Greenough, Dr R.G. Latham, Thomas Hodgkin MD, Mr Nash and Sir C. Malcolm, with power to add to the number, be appointed for the purpose of considering the means of improving the prospects of the Society’
sub-committee to enquire for accommodation Jul 1852; Sub-committee to represent claims of Society to be housed with other Scientific societies at the expense of the Nation May 1853; deputation to Sir William Molesworth Chief Commissioner of Works re accommodation of society 1854
death on 2 Apr 1855 at Naples announced 2 May 1855: Mr Greenough, one of our Vice Presidents and a Founder of the Society, was devoted to Science for which he laboured during a long life. He was a founder of the Geological and its first President, and the records of perhaps every Society in London established to advance science contains some notice of the results of his incessant attention to increase our knowledge of nature. He was a liberal contributor to our Library giving, besides books, a donation of £20 in money at one time for the purchase of books.
Notes From Elsewhere
George Bellas Greenough FRS FGS (18 January 1778 – 2 April 1855) was an English geologist
Member of the Athenauem Club from 1824
Publications
External Publications
House Publications
Related Material Details
RAI Material
MS 64 Ethnological dictionary 11 vols.
Other Material
UCL a large collection of Greenough papers among which are 26 files devoted to ethnology and others that appear to concern the ESL and a prospectus from 1844 for an "Ethnolographical Institution and Gallery of Nations" in 1844.
