Samuel Pickworth Woodward (17 September 1821 – 11 July 1865) was an English

geologist A geologist is a scientist who studies the structure, composition, and History of Earth, history of Earth. Geologists incorporate techniques from physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, and geography to perform research in the Field research, ...

and

malacologist Malacology, from Ancient Greek μαλακός (''malakós''), meaning "soft", and λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study", is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (molluscs or mollusks), the second-largest ...

Biography

He was the son of the geologist

Samuel Woodward Samuel Woodward (3 October 1790 – 14 January 1838), English geologist and antiquary, was born at Norwich. He was for the most part self-educated. Apprenticed in 1804 to a manufacturer of camlets and bombazines, a taste for serious study was ...

. In 1845, S. P. Woodward became the professor of geology and natural history in the

Royal Agricultural College The Royal Agricultural University (RAU), formerly the Royal Agricultural College, is a public university in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England. Established in 1845, it was the first agricultural college in the English-speaking world. ...

, Cirencester. In 1848 he was appointed assistant in the department of geology and mineralogy in the

British Museum The British Museum is a Museum, public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. It documents the story of human cu ...

. He was author of ''A Manual of the Mollusca'' (in three parts, 1851, 1853 and 1856). He proposed the term

Bernician Series In geology, Bernician Series was a term proposed by Samuel Pickworth Woodward in 1856 (''Manual of Mollusca'', p. 409) for the lower portion of the Carboniferous System, below the Millstone Grit. The name was suggested by that of the ancient p ...

for the lower portion of the

Carboniferous The Carboniferous ( ) is a Geologic time scale, geologic period and System (stratigraphy), system of the Paleozoic era (geology), era that spans 60 million years, from the end of the Devonian Period Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the ...

System, below the

Millstone Grit Millstone Grit is any of a number of coarse-grained sandstones of Carboniferous age which occur in the British Isles. The name derives from its use in earlier times as a source of millstones for use principally in watermills. Geologists refer to ...

Grave of Samuel Pickworth Woodward in Highgate Cemetery

He died on 11 July 1865 and was buried on the eastern side of

Highgate Cemetery Highgate Cemetery is a place of burial in North London, England, designed by architect Stephen Geary. There are approximately 170,000 people buried in around 53,000 graves across the West and East sides. Highgate Cemetery is notable both for so ...

. Woodwardite, a hexagonal mineral containing aluminum, copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and

sulphur Sulfur (American spelling and the preferred IUPAC name) or sulphur (English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth spelling) is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol S and atomic number 16. It is abundance of the chemical ...

, was described as a new mineral species by Church (1866) and named in honour Samuel Pickworth Woodward; its ( type locality was given only as Cornwall.Church, A. H., 1866. ''J. Chem. Soc.'' 19, p. 131.

Family

S. P. Woodward's son,

Horace Bolingbroke Woodward Horace Bolingbroke Woodward , (20 August 1848 – 6 February 1914) was a British geologist who participated in the Geological Survey of England and Wales from 1867 until his retirement in 1908. He was vice-president of the Geological Society, whe ...

(1848-1914), became in 1863 an assistant in the library of the Geological Society, and joined the Geological Survey in 1867, rising to be assistant-director. In 1893-1894 he was president of the Geologists' Association, and he published many important works on geology. A younger son was Bernard Barham Woodward, a British

and a member of staff at the

and the

Natural History Museum A natural history museum or museum of natural history is a scientific institution with natural history scientific collection, collections that include current and historical records of animals, plants, Fungus, fungi, ecosystems, geology, paleo ...

Bibliography

* ''A Manual of the Mollusca'' (in three parts, 1851, 1853 and 1856). * Fischer P., Oehlert P. & Woodward S. P. (1885-1887)
''Manuel de conchyliologie et de paléontologie conchyliologique ou histoire naturelle des mollusques vivants et fossiles suivi d'un appendice sur les brachipodes''
Avec 23 planches contenant 600 figures et 1138 gravures dans le texte. pp. I-XXIV, pp. 1–1369, Plates I-XXIII, 1 map. Paris.

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* * 1821 births 1865 deaths Burials at Highgate Cemetery 19th-century English geologists Academics of the Royal Agricultural University Employees of the Natural History Museum, London {{UK-geologist-stub