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(aged 88)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Sheffield" title="Sheffield">Sheffield</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sidney_Sussex_College,_Cambridge" title="Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge">Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge</a> (B.A., 1901)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data">Geology in the service of man (1944)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Murchison_Medal" title="Murchison Medal">Murchison Medal</a> (1932)<br /><a href="/wiki/Royal_Society" title="Royal Society">FRS</a> (1932)<sup id="cite_ref-frs_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-frs-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Scientific career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Institutions</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">University of Cambridge</a><br /><a href="/wiki/University_of_Sheffield" title="University of Sheffield">University of Sheffield</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>William George Fearnsides</b> <a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society" title="Fellow of the Royal Society">FRS</a><sup id="cite_ref-frs_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-frs-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (1879–1968) was a British geologist who worked at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">University of Cambridge</a> from 1904 to 1913, and was professor of geology at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Sheffield" title="University of Sheffield">University of Sheffield</a> from 1913 to 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_George_Fearnsides&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Fearnsides, who was later known as 'Bones' by his contemporaries, was born in <a href="/wiki/Horbury" title="Horbury">Horbury</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yorkshire" title="Yorkshire">Yorkshire</a>. He was the eldest son of Joshua and Maria Fearnsides, and he had two younger siblings who pre-deceased him; Edwin Greaves who died in 1919 in a boating accident, and Marguerite, who died in 1904.<sup id="cite_ref-frs_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-frs-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Fearnsides went to school at the <a href="/wiki/Kirklees_College" title="Kirklees College">Wheelwright Grammar School, Dewsbury</a>, and won a scholarship to the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">University of Cambridge</a> in 1895. He went to <a href="/wiki/Sidney_Sussex_College,_Cambridge" title="Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge">Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge</a> to study Natural Sciences in 1897, and graduated with a first class degree in <a href="/wiki/Geology" title="Geology">geology</a> in 1901.<sup id="cite_ref-frs_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-frs-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After leaving Cambridge, he took up an apprenticeship with <a href="/wiki/Westinghouse_Electric_Corporation" title="Westinghouse Electric Corporation">Westinghouse Electric Corporation</a> in <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh" title="Pittsburgh">Pittsburgh</a>, but left after an altercation, and eventually made his way back to England on a cattle boat.<sup id="cite_ref-frs_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-frs-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fearnsides returned to Cambridge, where he was elected a fellow of Sidney Sussex college in 1904, appointed college lecturer in 1908, and became university demonstrator in <a href="/wiki/Petrology" title="Petrology">petrology</a> in 1909.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During this time, Fearnsides worked extensively on the <a href="/wiki/Lower_Palaeozoic" class="mw-redirect" title="Lower Palaeozoic">Lower Palaeozoic</a> rocks of Wales, northern England and Scandinavia, publishing papers with <a href="/wiki/John_Edward_Marr" title="John Edward Marr">John E Marr</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gertrude_Elles" title="Gertrude Elles">Gertrude Elles</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Smith_(geologist)" title="Bernard Smith (geologist)">Bernard Smith</a>. In 1913, Fearnsides was appointed to the new Sorby professorship of geology at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Sheffield" title="University of Sheffield">University of Sheffield</a>, a post he held until retirement in 1945. In Sheffield, Fearnsides extended his work on metal <a href="/wiki/Alloys" class="mw-redirect" title="Alloys">alloys</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Metallography" title="Metallography">metallography</a>, and recognised the applications of these approaches to the study of <a href="/wiki/Metamorphic" class="mw-redirect" title="Metamorphic">metamorphic</a> rocks, and did much to demonstrate the value of geology to society.<sup id="cite_ref-frs_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-frs-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_recognition">Awards and recognition</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_George_Fearnsides&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Awards and recognition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Fearnsides was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Murchison_Medal" title="Murchison Medal">Murchison Medal</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Geological_Society_of_London" title="Geological Society of London">Geological Society of London</a> in 1932, and elected <a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society" title="Fellow of the Royal Society">Fellow of the Royal Society</a> in the same year. He served as <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_Geological_Society_of_London" class="mw-redirect" title="President of the Geological Society of London">President of the Geological Society of London</a> from 1943 to 1945, and was elected to honorary fellowship of Sidney Sussex college in 1946.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Key_publications">Key publications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_George_Fearnsides&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Key publications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In addition to his academic publications, Fearnsides published a popular <a href="/wiki/Pelican_Books" title="Pelican Books">Pelican book</a> with <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Bulman" title="Oliver Bulman">Oliver Bulman</a> in 1944, 'Geology in the service of man'; this went through several reprints and revised editions.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family">Family</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_George_Fearnsides&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1911, Fearnsides married Beatrix Mary Adelaide Watts, daughter of <a href="/wiki/William_Whitehead_Watts" title="William Whitehead Watts">W W Watts</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They had two daughters, Marguerite and Elizabeth. Elizabeth served in the <a href="/wiki/Auxiliary_Territorial_Service" title="Auxiliary Territorial Service">Auxiliary Territorial Service</a> in North Africa and Italy, and died in a road traffic accident near Genoa in 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-frs_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-frs-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_George_Fearnsides&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-frs-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-frs_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-frs_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-frs_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-frs_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-frs_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-frs_1-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-frs_1-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFBulman1969" class="citation journal cs1"><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Bulman" title="Oliver Bulman">Bulman, O. 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Greenough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spencer_Compton,_2nd_Marquess_of_Northampton" title="Spencer Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton">Earl Compton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Babington_(physician)" title="William Babington (physician)">William Babington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Buckland" title="William Buckland">William Buckland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Bostock_(physician)" title="John Bostock (physician)">John Bostock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Henry_Fitton" title="William Henry Fitton">William Fitton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adam_Sedgwick" title="Adam Sedgwick">Adam Sedgwick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roderick_Murchison" title="Roderick Murchison">Roderick Murchison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Bellas_Greenough" title="George Bellas Greenough">George Bellas Greenough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Lyell" title="Charles Lyell">Charles Lyell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Whewell" title="William Whewell">William Whewell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Buckland" title="William Buckland">William Buckland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roderick_Murchison" title="Roderick Murchison">Roderick Murchison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Warburton" title="Henry Warburton">Henry Warburton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Horner" title="Leonard Horner">Leonard Horner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_De_la_Beche" title="Henry De la Beche">Henry De la Beche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Hopkins" title="William Hopkins">William Hopkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Forbes" title="Edward Forbes">Edward Forbes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Hamilton_(geologist)" title="William Hamilton (geologist)">William Hamilton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Sharpe" title="Daniel Sharpe">Daniel Sharpe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Ellison_Portlock" title="Joseph Ellison Portlock">Joseph Ellison Portlock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Phillips_(geologist)" title="John Phillips 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