Foreign Associate of the Anthropological Society of Paris<br />1864.05.31 Hon. Secretary. It was resolved on the motion of Mr J. Fred Collingwood, seconded by Mr Beavan, that George E. Roberts Esq. – The Geological Society, Somerset House – be elected Hon. Secretary of the Society in the place of Mr C. Carter Blake resigned.<br />1865.05.16 resigned as Hon. Sec. due to lack of time [Annual report]<br />Obituary notice in Presidents Address 1866. Involved in drawing up rules and regulations<br />

George Edward Roberts was a member of a family which ran a draper's business in the Bull Ring for over 50 years from the early 1830s. George was born in Birmingham on the 19th May 1831, but the family had moved to Kidderminster by the time of his baptism at St Mary's Church on the 11th January 1833....Eventually, George opted to pursue a professional Geological career and obtained theposition the position of Clerk to the Geological Society in 1860. In London he widened his horizons and published articles in several journals including: the Intellectual Review, the Journal of the Geological Society, the Geological Magazine and the Anthropological Review. In 1863 he published two papers in the same issue of the Journal of the Geological Society that also contained articles by the eminent scientists Thomas Huxley and Charles Darwin. In addition to these activities George became a member of the Anthropological Society at its inception in January 1863 and served as Hon. Secretary from June 1864 until his death.<br />Sadly, George's promising career ended prematurely with his sudden death at his mother's house on 21st December 1865 aged just 34.