Thomas Henry Holland

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Thomas Henry Holland
Born(1868-11-22)22 November 1868
Helston, Cornwall, England
Died15 May 1947(1947-05-15) (aged 78)
Alma mater
Occupation(s)Geologist, university administrator

Sir Thomas Henry Holland

FRSE[1] (22 November 1868 – 15 May 1947) was a British geologist who worked in India with the Geological Survey of India, serving as its director from 1903 to 1910. He later worked as an educational administrator at Edinburgh University.[2]

Early life

Thomas Holland was born on 22 November 1868 in Helston, Cornwall,[1] to John Holland and Grace Treloar Roberts who later emigrated to Canada to live in a farm in Springfield, Manitoba.[3]

In 1884, Thomas won a scholarship to study at the

Owens College, Manchester, in 1889.[1]

Career

c. 1907

In 1890, Holland was appointed Assistant Superintendent of the

Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE) for his services to the Geological Survey of India.[1] He returned to Britain in 1910, and in 1912 he was appointed to the Royal Commission on Fuel and Engines.[6][7] He was president of the British Association in 1928–1929.[8]

Under the editorship of Holland a four volume "Provincial Geographies of India" series was published between 1913 and 1923 from the Cambridge University Press.

Holland was

rector of Imperial College London[9] from 1922 to 1929 and principal of the University of Edinburgh from 1929 to 1944. The Albert Medal of the Royal Society of Arts for 1939 was awarded to Sir Thomas H. Holland, "for his services to the mineral industries". He was also a member of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society.[2]

From 1929 until 1940 he was principal of

James Alfred Ewing, Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, Ralph Allan Sampson and James Hartley Ashworth. He served as the society's vice-president from 1932 to 1935. He served as president of the Geographical Association in 1937–1938. He won the society's Bruce Preller Prize for 1941.[10]

Death

Holland died unexpectedly at his home in Surbiton on 15 May 1947.[11]

Family

He married twice: firstly in 1896 to Frances Maud Chapman (d.1942); secondly in 1946, aged 78, to Helen Ethleen Verrall.[1]

References

  1. ^
    S2CID 179031486
    .
  2. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33945. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  3. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X
    .
  4. ^ A. Raman: The Madras charnockite. Expressbuzz Archived 29 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine, 10 November 2009.
  5. ^ Datta, Rangan (24 August 2023). "The discovery of Charnockite – the rock of Charnock". No. The Telegraph. My Kolkata. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  6. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33945. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  7. ^ "No. 28632". The London Gazette. 2 August 1912. pp. 5721–5722.
  8. University of Witwatersrand
    , Johannesburg in 1929
  9. Imperial College, London
    , UK.
  10. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X
    .
  11. doi:10.1038/160011a0
    ..

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Academic offices
Preceded by
Rector of Imperial College London

1922–1929 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Sir Alfred James Ewing
Principal of the University of Edinburgh

1929–1944 		Succeeded by
Sir John Fraser
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