A. E. Trueman

A. E. Trueman
Born	(1894-04-26)26 April 1894
Died	5 January 1956(1956-01-05) (aged 61)
Fields	Geology
Notable awards	Bigsby Medal (1939) Wollaston Medal (1955) Fellow of the Royal Society^[1]

Sir Arthur Elijah Trueman, KBE FRS^[1] FRSE FGS,^[1] (26 April 1894 – 5 January 1956) was a British geologist.

Early life and career

Trueman was born in Nottingham, son of Elijah and Thirza Trueman. He was educated at High Pavement School, Nottingham, leaving in 1911 to become student teacher at Huntington Street School, Nottingham. He entered University College Nottingham in 1912 with a grant as a teacher in training, studied geology under H.H. Swinnerton, and graduated B.Sc. with first-class honours in 1914. He took an M.Sc in 1916 and D. Sc. in 1918, all from University College Nottingham. In 1920, he married Florence Kate Offler.

Career

Trueman's first post was as Assistant Lecturer at University College, Cardiff, from late 1917 until 1920. From 1920 on, he was lecturer and head of the Department of Geology at the newly established University College, Swansea, and was appointed Professor of Geology and head of the Department of Geography in 1930. In 1933, he was appointed Chaning Wills Professor of Geology at the University of Bristol, where he also served as Dean of the Faculty of Science for three years. Amongst his students at that time was the young future Professor L.R. Moore. In 1937, he was invited chair of geology at the University of Glasgow until 1946, to be succeeded by his student Thomas Neville George.

From 1946 until 1953 he served in the University Grants Committee, since 1949 as chairman. From 1945 to 1947, he was president of the Geological Society of London. He also served as chairman of the British Association Committee on the Teaching of Geology in Schools, as president of the Geological Section of the Bristol Naturalists' Society, and president of the Glasgow Geological Society. He was knighted in 1951.

Awards

1925 Murchison Fund, Geological Society of London
1934 Gold Medal, South Wales Institute of Engineers
1938 Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh
1939 Bigsby Medal, Geological Society of London
1942 Fellow of the Royal Society^[1]
1951 KBE
1955 Wollaston Medal, Geological Society of London

He received four honorary LL.D. degrees, from Glasgow, Rhodes, Wales, and Leeds.

Works

An Introduction to Geology. London, Thos. Murby & Co, 1938.
The Scenery of England and Wales. London, Gollancz, 1938.

Subsequently revised by Whittow J.B. & Hardy J.R. and republished as:

Geology and Scenery in England and Wales. Harmondsworth, Penguin books, 1971. ISBN 0-14-020185-8

References

1 2 3 4 Pugh, William John (1958). "Arthur Elijah Trueman. 1894-1956". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 4: 291–426. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1958.0023.

Presidents of the Geological Society of London

19th century	George Bellas Greenough Henry Grey Bennet William Blake John MacCulloch George Bellas Greenough Earl Compton William Babington William Buckland John Bostock William Fitton Adam Sedgwick Roderick Murchison George Bellas Greenough Charles Lyell William Whewell William Buckland Roderick Murchison Henry Warburton Leonard Horner Henry De la Beche Charles Lyell William Hopkins Edward Forbes William Hamilton Daniel Sharpe Joseph Ellison Portlock John Phillips Leonard Horner Andrew Crombie Ramsay William Hamilton Warington Wilkinson Smyth Thomas Henry Huxley Joseph Prestwich George Douglas Campbell John Evans Peter Martin Duncan Henry Clifton Sorby Robert Etheridge John Whitaker Hulke Thomas Bonney John Wesley Judd William Blanford Archibald Geikie Wilfred Hudleston Henry Woodward Henry Hicks William Whitaker

20th century	Jethro Teall Charles Lapworth John Marr Archibald Geikie William Sollas William Watts Aubrey Strahan Arthur Smith Woodward Alfred Harker George Lamplugh Richard Oldham Albert Seward John Evans Francis Bather John Gregory Edmund Garwood Thomas Holland John Green Owen Thomas Jones Henry Hurd Swinnerton Percy Boswell Herbert Leader Hawkins William Fearnsides Arthur Trueman Herbert Harold Read Cecil Tilley Owen Thomas Jones George Lees William King Walter Campbell Smith Leonard Hawkes James Stubblefield Sydney Hollingworth Oliver Bulman Frederick Shotton Kingsley Dunham Thomas Neville George William Alexander Deer Thomas Westoll Percy Kent Wallace Pitcher Percival Allen Howel Francis Janet Watson Charles Holland Bernard Leake Derek Blundell Anthony Harris Charles Curtis R. S. J. Sparks Richard Hardman Robin Cocks

21st century	Ronald Oxburgh Mark Moody-Stuart Peter Styles Richard Fortey Lynne Frostick

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 43359016 LCCN: n87816918 ISNI: 0000 0001 2278 9880 SUDOC: 076695301

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