Henry Thomas De la Beche
1796–1855
Geologist. First director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, 1835–55. Established the Museum of Practical Geology and the School of Mines. Knighted, 1842. FRS 1819.
Sources
ODNB
DSB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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