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Sir Henry Thomas De la Beche KCB, FRS (10 February 1796 – 13 April 1855) was an English geologist and palaeontologist, the first director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, who helped pioneer early geological survey methods.
Sir Henry Thomas De La Beche was a geologist who founded the Geological Survey of Great Britain, which made the first methodical geologic survey of an entire country ever undertaken. De La Beche was educated for the military but left the army in 1815 and two years later joined the Geological.
Oct 19, 2008 · Henry De la Beche advocated education and knowledge of the Earth for all social classes. He used his government influence to lobby for the establishment of facilities and organizations dedicated to geology’s growing professionalization and popularization.
May 29, 2018 · De la Beche’s pioneer fieldwork was not confined to rocks of any particular kind or age. In conjunction with his extensive reading of the literature, he had acquired a wide general knowledge of geology, and his publications added considerably to the general stock of geological facts.
Biography of Henry de la Beche (1796-1855) Gillian Allen, Legacies of Devon Slave-ownership Group. Henry de la Beche was born in 1796 in Wimpole Street, London, an area popular with wealthy slave-owners.
The Department of Geology at Amgueddfa Cymru houses one of the most important geological archives in the world. It contains over 2,000 items - letters, diaries, journals, sketches and photographs - of one of the leading geologists of the early 19th century, Sir Henry Thomas De la Beche (1796-1855). During the first half of the 19th century De ...
De la Beche was a slave owner, geologist, palaeontologist, and caricaturist who founded several geological institutions in Britain. He also illustrated his scientific publications and produced the first image of deep time, inspired by Mary Anning's fossil finds.
