Edward Battersby Bailey

Sir Edward Battersby Bailey FRS[1] FRSE MC LLD (1 July 1881 – 19 March 1965) was an English geologist.

Life

Bailey was born in Marden, Kent, the son of Dr James Battersby Bailey and Louise Florence Carr.[2]

He was educated at Kendal grammar school and Clare College, Cambridge.[3] He gained first-class honours in both parts one and two of the natural sciences tripos.[4] He also won a heavyweight boxing medal while at Cambridge.[4]

From 1915 to 1919 he served as a Lieutenant with the Royal Garrison Artillery and was twice wounded, losing his left eye and much of the use of his left arm. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1916[5] and the French Croix de Guerre with palms in 1919.[6] He was also made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.[4]

He was Vice President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1935 to 1937.

From 1929 to 1937, he held the chair in geology at the University of Glasgow, where he was succeeded by Sir Arthur Elijah Trueman (chair in geology 1937–1946).

He was director of the British Geological Survey from 1937 to 1945.[4]

He was an atheist.[7]

He died in Middlesex Hospital in London. He was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium.

Family

His first wife, Alice Meason, died in 1956. He remarried, to Mary M W Young in 1962.

Publications

  • Bailey, Edward Battersby (1916). "The Islay Anticline (Inner Hebrides)". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London. 72 (1–4): 132–164. doi:10.1144/gsl.jgs.1916.072.01-04.10. S2CID 131690507.
  • Bailey, Edward Battersby (1935). Tectonic Essays, Mainly Alpine. Clarendon Press.
  • Bailey, Edward Battersby; Hartley, Harold Brewer (1960). "Charles Lyell, F. R. S. (1797-1875)". Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 14 (1): 121–138. doi:10.1098/rsnr.1959.0007. S2CID 145462218.
  • Bailey, Edward Battersby (1967). James Hutton--the founder of modern geology. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Honours and awards

Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1930,[1] in 1943 he was awarded its Royal Medal. In 1948 he received the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society. He was also a foreign member of the national academies of Belgium, India, Norway, Switzerland, and the United States.[4]

Bailey was a knighted in the 1945 New Year Honours[8] and received the accolade from the King on 13 February 1945.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b Stubblefield, C. J. (1965). "Edward Battersby Bailey. 1881-1965". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 11: 1–21. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1965.0001. S2CID 129978350.
  2. ^ C D Waterston; A Macmillan Shearer (July 2006). Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783–2002: Part 1 (A–J) (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 090219884X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  3. ^ "Bailey, Edward Battersby (BLY899EB)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. ^ a b c d e C. James Stubblefield, 'Bailey, Sir Edward Battersby (1881–1965)’, rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2007 Retrieved 13 Feb 2009
  5. ^ "No. 29793". The London Gazette (Supplement). 20 October 1916. p. 10175.
  6. ^ "No. 31109". The London Gazette (Supplement). 7 June 1919. p. 312.
  7. ^ A.G. MacGregor: "Bailey, Edward Battersby", Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography Vol. 1 p. 393. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2008.
  8. ^ "No. 36866". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1945. p. 1.
  9. ^ "No. 36943". The London Gazette. 16 February 1945. p. 943.

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