John Wesley Judd


John Wesley Judd CB FRS FGS (18 February 1840 – 3 March 1916) was a British geologist.

John Wesley Judd

CB,FRS
Born(1840-02-18)18 February 1840
Portsmouth
Died3 March 1916(1916-03-03) (aged 76)
Alma materRoyal School of Mines
SpouseJeannie Frances Jeyes
AwardsWollaston Medal (1891)
Companion of the Order of the Bath (1895)
Scientific career
InstitutionsBritish Geological Survey
Imperial College
Royal College of Science

Biography

He was born in Portsmouth the son of George and Jannette Judd. At the age of 8, he moved to London, and went to school in Camberwell.[1] After leaving school, Judd became a school-teacher in Horncastle, Lincolnshire until 1863, when he became a student at the Royal School of Mines. From 1867 - 1870, Judd worked for the Geological Survey of England and Wales, mapping Rutland, before joining the Education Department, under Matthew Arnold, as an Inspector of Schools in 1871.[2] In his spare time, Judd continued his geological studies in Scotland, and later in the volcanic districts of Italy. He returned to Imperial College in 1876, succeeding Sir Andrew Ramsey as Professor of Geology.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1877, having been nominated by Charles Darwin, George Julius Poulett Scrope, Nevil Maskelyne and Edward Hull, among others.[3] He was President of the Geological Society between 1886 and 1888 and awarded their Wollaston Medal in 1891. He was later Dean of the Royal College of Science,[4] and Vice-President of the Royal Society from 1902 to 1904.[5] He retired from Imperial College in 1905.

Notable pupils of his include Edgeworth David, William Fraser Hume and Frederick Chapman.

He married in 1878 Jeannie Frances, daughter of John Jeyes.

Works
  • Judd, John Wesley (1881). Volcanoes: what they are and what they teach. New York: Appleton.
  • Judd, John Wesley (1873). The Secondary Rocks of Scotland. First Paper. London: Geological Society.
  • Judd, John Wesley (1874). The Secondary Rocks of Scotland. Second Paper. On the Ancient Volcanoes of the Highlands and the Relations of their Products to the Mesozoic Strata (PDF). London: Geological Society.
  • Judd, John Wesley (1878). The Secondary Rocks of Scotland. Third Paper. The Strata of the Western Coast and Islands. London: Geological Society.

References
  1. Bonney, T. G. (1 March 1916). "Prof. J. W. Judd, C.B., F.R.S." Nature. 97 (2419): 37–38. doi:10.1038/097037a0. S2CID 2886870.
  2. Cole, Grenville A. J. (11 January 1918). "In Memoriam: John Wesley Judd". Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society. 19 (4): 327–329. doi:10.1144/pygs.19.4.327.
  3. "Search Results". catalogues.royalsociety.org.
  4. "Royal College of Science". The Times. No. 36889. London. 3 October 1902. p. 9.
  5. "Search Results". catalogues.royalsociety.org.
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