Joseph Prestwich

Joseph Prestwich

Joseph Prestwich FRS
Born	1812
Died	1896
Residence	Shoreham Sevenoaks [1869] 34 Broad Street, Oxford [1879] 35 St Giles', Oxford [1883] Darent-Hulme, near Shoreham, Sevenoaks [1888]
Occupation	geologist business
Society Membership membership ESL, AI Ordinary Fellow left 1896 deceased elected_ESL 1869.06 elected_AI 1869 clubs Athenaeum Club societies Royal Society Zetetical Society Geological Society Palaeontographical Society

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House Notes

Professor of Geology in the University of Oxford [1879]
1896.11.10 death announced

Notes From Elsewhere

Sir Joseph Prestwich FRS, (12 March 1812 – 23 June 1896) was a British geologist and businessman, known as an expert on the Tertiary Period and for having confirmed the findings of Boucher de Perthes of ancient flint tools in the Somme valley gravel beds.

Member of the Athenaeum club from 1863

Publications

External Publications

Geology of Coalbrookdale

Geology, Chemical and Physical, Stratigraphical and Palaeontologic