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| Formation | 1814 |
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| Type | Scientific society |
| Headquarters | King Edward Mine, Cornwall, United Kingdom |
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Official language | English |
| Website | http://geologycornwall.com/ |
The Royal Geological Society of Cornwall is a geological society originally based in Penzance, Cornwall in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1814 to promote the study of the geology of Cornwall, and is the second oldest geological society in the world, after the Geological Society of London which was founded in 1807. [1] [2]
The first President of the society was Davies Gilbert, [3] the first Secretary John Ayrton Paris, [4] and other notable members include Humphry Davy (some of whose papers are held by the Society), [5] and William Gregor, who discovered titanium. [6]
The society's first premises was a house in North Parade, Penzance and in 1853 the Borough of Penzance put forward plans for a new public building on the west side of Penzance. It was planned to have the Borough offices, county court and police station in the east wing, the two floors of the west wing housing the RGSC's museum and a public hall between the two run by a public company. The building, known as St John's Hall, was opened in 1867 and still exists although, in July 2016, the west wing was occupied by the new Penzance library. [7] In 2023 the RGSC's base was at King Edward Mine, near Camborne, [8] although meetings and lectures were usually held at Camborne School of Mines and other facilities on the Penryn Campus, and via Zoom. [9]
The society awards the Bolitho Medal for notable achievement in geology. [12] The first award was made to Robert Etheridge in 1896. It was awarded in 1948 to Sir Arthur Russell, 6th Baronet. [13]
Penzance is a town, civil parish and port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is the most westerly major town in Cornwall and is about 64 miles (103 km) west-southwest of Plymouth and 255 miles (410 km) west-southwest of London. Situated in the shelter of Mount's Bay, the town faces south-east onto the English Channel, is bordered to the west by the fishing port of Newlyn, to the north by the civil parish of Madron and to the east by the civil parish of Ludgvan. The civil parish includes the town of Newlyn and the villages of Mousehole, Paul, Gulval, and Heamoor. Granted various royal charters from 1512 onwards and incorporated on 9 May 1614, it has a population of 21,200.
Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth was a British geologist.
Sir Clement le Neve Foster was an English geologist and mineralogist.
Robert Etheridge FRS FRSE FGS was an English geologist and palaeontologist.
Andrew Ketcham Barnett (1852–1914) was a mineral collector and dealer in Penzance, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. He was Principal of the Penzance School of Mines, lectured on mining, and helped to build their mineral collection. He also served as Mayor of Penzance on seven occasions from 1906 to 1913.
Charles Fox was a Quaker scientist known for his contributions to Cornish mining. He also developed Trebah Garden, near Mawnan Smith in Cornwall. He was a member of the influential Fox family of Falmouth.
The Morrab Library is a subscription library in Penzance, Cornwall in England.
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John St Aubyn, 1st Baron St Levan, known as Sir John St Aubyn, 2nd Baronet, from 1872 to 1887, was a British Liberal, and later Liberal Unionist, politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1858 until 1887 when he was raised to the peerage.
Sir Charles Lemon, 2nd Baronet was a British Member of Parliament for several constituencies and a baronet.
Henry Boase was a Cornish banker and author.
Sir Arthur Edward Ian Montagu Russell, 6th Baronet, MBE, FRS, was a British mineralogist of the 20th century. He was a collector and a collector of collections.
Joseph Henry Collins FGS, was a British mining engineer, mineralogist and geologist. He died at his home, Crinnis House, near St Austell, on 12 April 1916 and is buried in Campdowns cemetery, Charlestown.
Sir Arthur Pendarves Vivian was a British industrialist, mine-owner and Liberal politician from the Vivian family, who worked in South Wales and Cornwall, and sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1885.
John Hawkins was an English geologist, traveller and writer.
Howard Fox was a shipping agent and played a large part in the economic and cultural development of the town of Falmouth, Cornwall. He was a member of the influential Fox family of Falmouth.
Charles Valentine Le Grice (1773–1858) was an Anglican priest, an associate of Charles Lamb and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a squib writer, and a translator of Longus.
Thomas Bedford Bolitho was a British banker and industrialist. He was a Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament for St Ives in Cornwall from 1887 to 1900.
Madron Well and Madron Well Chapel is a scheduled Ancient Monument in the civil parish of Madron, Cornwall, UK.
Rugby union in Cornwall is a timeline of rugby union in Cornwall in the 19th century.
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