Thomas Oldham
1816–78
Irish geologist. Chief geological assistant to the Geological Survey of Ireland, 1839–50. Professor of geology, Trinity College, Dublin, 1845–51. In 1849, discovered in the rocks of Bray Head, county Wicklow, fossils or organic marks, which were named Oldhamia, after him. Director, Geological Survey of India, 1850–76. FRS 1848.
Sources
Modern English biography
ODNB
Sarjeant 1980–96
Bibliography
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
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.
Sarjeant, William A. S. 1980–96. Geologists and the history of geology: an international bibliography. 10 vols. including supplements. London: Macmillan. Malabar, Fla.: Robert E. Krieger Publishing.
