Edward Hull (geologist)

He was born in Antrim, Ireland, the eldest son of the Reverend J.D. Hull. He graduated B.A. from Trinity College, Dublin.

He joined the Geological Survey of Ireland and worked in Wales and on the Lancashire Coalfield. He worked for the Geological Survey of Scotland (1867-1868) and led an expedition to survey parts of Arabia Petraea and Palestine (1883). He became Director of the Irish branch of the Survey and retired in 1891. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1867.[3] He was President of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland in 1873.[4]

His daughter Charlotte Ferguson-Davie became a noted physician. He died at his home in Notting Hill, London, aged 88.[1] Edward Hull's obituarist wrote of him, "He maintained the honour of a gentleman."[5]

• The geology of the country around Wigan, Memoirs / Geological Survey. England and Wales ;no. 89 S.W., H.M.S.O., London, 1860
• The geology of the country around Prescot, Lancashire (2nd ed.), H.M.S.O., 1865
• The Triassic and Permian rocks of the midland counties of England, [Gt. Brit. Geological survey] Memoirs of the Geological survey, England and Wales, H.M.S.O., London, 1869
• The Physical Geology and Geography of Ireland, Edward Stranforth, London, 1878 ; (revised, 2nd edition, 1891)
• The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoir on the Physical Geology and Geography of Arabia Petraea. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. 1886.
• Volcanoes: Past and Present. The contemporary science series. London: Walter Scott, Ltd. 1892.
• The Wallchart of World History ; This book has been updated in the late 20th century and 21st century.
• The Coal-fields of Great Britain: Their History, Structure and Resources, E. Stanford, 1861
• Geology of Belfast and the Lagan Valley: (One-Inch Geological Sheet 36) - with H. E. Wilson , Manning, P. I. , and James Andrew Robbie.
• Reminiscences of a Strenuous Life (autobiography), 1909 , 2nd edition, 1910
  • (review) "Review of Reminiscences of a Strenuous Life by Edward Hull". Nature. 83 (2118): 395–396. 2 June 1910. doi:10.1038/083395b0. hdl:2027/inu.39000025091393. S2CID 3991838.

Hull married in 1857 Mary Catherine Henrietta Cooke, daughter of Charles Turner Cooke, a surgeon in Cheltenham and his wife Catherine Bennett Cooke. They had a family of two sons and four daughters, who included Eleanor Hull and Charlotte Elizabeth Ferguson-Davie.[6][7][8] Another daughter, Alice, married in 1896 John Hill Twigg (1841–1917) of the Indian Civil Service.[9][10]

• Works by Edward Hull at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Edward Hull at Internet Archive