Hugh Simon Torrens (born 1940) is a British historian of geology and paleontology, and Emeritus Professor of History of Science and Technology at

Keele University Keele University, officially known as the University of Keele, is a public research university in Keele, approximately from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England. Founded in 1949 as the University College of North Staffordshire, Keele ...

. Torrens received a bachelor's degree from the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

and a PhD from the

University of Leicester , mottoeng = So that they may have life , established = , type = public research university , endowment = £20.0 million , budget = £326 million , chancellor = David Willetts , vice_chancellor = Nishan Canagarajah , head_lab ...

. He was president of the

Society for the History of Natural History The Society for the History of Natural History (SHNH) is an international society for everyone who is interested in natural history in the broadest sense. This includes botany, zoology and geology as well as natural history collections, exploration ...

from 2012 to 2015, when he was succeeded by

Arthur MacGregor Arthur MacGregor is a British academic and author, "who largely invented the idea of the history of museums". MacGregor has spent most of his career at the Ashmolean Museum, before his appointment as director of the Society of Antiquaries. He h ...

. He was awarded the

Sue Tyler Friedman Medal The Sue Tyler Friedman Medal is awarded by the Geological Society of London for work on the history of geology. Established in 1987, it is named after the wife of academic journal editor and publisher Gerald M. Friedman, and was funded by a gift t ...

by the Geological Society in 1991.

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Publications by H.S. Torrens 1964-2017
1940 births Living people Alumni of the University of Leicester Alumni of the University of Oxford Academics of Keele University British paleoanthropologists British geologists {{UK-geologist-stub