Edward Greenly
Edward Greenly (3 December 1861 – 4 March 1951) was an English geologist known for his a detailed geological survey of the island of Anglesey. The Geology of Anglesey was published in two volumes in 1919 and followed by a one-inch geological map in 1920.[1]
Early life
Edward Greenly was born in Bristol, the only child of a doctor, Charles Hickes Greenly, and his wife, the former Harriet Dowling. He attended Clifton College, then University College London, where he studied petrology with Thomas George Bonney.[1]
Career
Greenly left school and joined the Geological Survey in 1889, and spent the next six years surveying the northwest Scottish Highlands. He resigned the Survey in 1895. Soon, he began an independent survey of Angelsey which took him until 1910 to complete, and nine more years to get the results published. During the survey, he named mélange, the geological phenomenon previously described as crush breccia.[2]
The two-volume product of his years of work, The Geology of Anglesey, was published in 1919.[3] The accompanying map was published the following year, delayed by World War I.[4]
In addition to the Angelsey work, Greenly co-authored a text on surveying (Methods of Geological Surveying, 1930),[5] and a theological treatise, A Hand Through Time: Memories Romantic and Geological; Studies in the Arts and Religion and the Grounds of Confidence in Immortality (1938).[6]
Personal life
Edward Greenly met Ann Bernard (1852-1927) when he was very young, in 1875. They married in 1891. Annie studied geology informally, and was a contributor to Edward's work as an assistant and editor. She created the massive index to the Anglesey survey. (Her handwritten draft, with papers strung on thread, is now in the National Museum of Wales.)[7]
After the Anglesey survey, the Greenlys lived in Bangor, and worked together on a small textbook, The Earth, right before Annie's death in 1927.[8] Edward died in 1951, age 90. His remains are with his wife's, in a churchyard at Llangristiolus.[7]
Edward Greenly endowed the Annie Greenly Fund with the Geological Society, to support mapping projects.[4]
Bangor University holds a small collection of papers and letters belonging to Greenly.[9]
Honours
- Honorary member of the Geological Societies of Edinburgh and Liverpool
- Honorary member of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society
- Lyell Medal of the Geological Society (1920)
- Medal of the Liverpool Geological Society (1933)
- Honorary doctorate by the University of Wales (1920)
References
- 1 2 E. N. K. Clarkson, "Greenly, Edward (1861–1951)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press 2004); online edn, Jan 2011 accessed 26 April 2016
- ↑ A. M. C. Şengör, "Repeated Rediscovery of Mélanges and its Implications" in Yildrim Dilek and Sally Newcomb, eds., Ophiolite Concept and the Evolution of Geological Thought (Geological Society of America 2003): 409-410. ISBN 9780813723730
- ↑ Edward Greenly, The Geology of Anglesey (Memoirs of the Geological Society: London 1919).
- 1 2 Jack Treagus, "Greenly's Geological Map of Anglesey" Geoscientist Online 20(4)(April 2010).
- ↑ Edward Greenly and Howel Williams, Methods of Geological Surveying (Thomas Murby 1930).
- ↑ Edward Greenly, A Hand Through Time: Memories Romantic and Geological; Studies in the Arts and Religion and the Grounds of Confidence in Immortality (Thomas Murby 1938).
- 1 2 T. P. T. Williams, "The Role of Annie Greenly in the Elucidation of the Geology of Anglesey" in Cynthia V. Burek and Bettie Higgs, The Role of Women in the History of Geology (Geological Society of London 2007): 319-324. ISBN 9781862392274
- ↑ Edward Greenly, The Earth, Its Nature and History (Watts 1927).
- ↑ Edward Greenly, Bangor Papers, Bangor University.
External links
- Works by or about Edward Greenly at Internet Archive
- A late portrait of Greenly, by Scottish painter Gertrude Mary Coventry (1886-1964), in the collection of Bangor University.
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