Samuel Woodward (3 October 1790 – 14 January 1838), English

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and

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, was born at

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. He was for the most part self-educated. Apprenticed in 1804 to a manufacturer of

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s and

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s, a taste for serious study was stimulated by his master, Alderman John Herring and by

Joseph John Gurney Joseph John Gurney (2 August 1788 – 4 January 1847) was a banker in Norwich, England, and a member of the Gurney family of that city. He became an evangelical minister of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), whose views and actions le ...

. Becoming interested in geology and

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, he began to form the collection which after his death was purchased for the Norwich museum. In 1820 he obtained a clerkship in Gurney's (afterwards Barclay's) bank at Norwich, and Hudson Gurney and

Dawson Turner Dawson Turner (18 October 1775 – 21 June 1858) was an English banker, botanist and antiquary. He specialized in the botany of cryptogams and was the father-in-law of the botanist William Jackson Hooker and of the historian Francis Palgr ...

(of Yarmouth), both fellows of the

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, encouraged his scientific work. He communicated to the ''Archaeologia'' articles on the round church towers of Norfolk, the Roman remains of the country, etc., and other papers on natural history and geology to the ''Mag. Nat. Hist.'' and ''Phil. Mag.'' He was author of: *''A Synoptical Table of British Organic Remains'' (1830), the first work of its kind in Britain *''An Outline of the Geology of Norfolk'' (1833) *''The Norfolk Topographer's Manual'' (1842) issued posthumously *''The History and Antiquities of Norwich Castle'' (1847) issued posthumously His eldest son,

Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward (2 May 1816 – 12 October 1869) was an English nonconformist minister, antiquarian, and Royal Librarian at Windsor Castle. Life The eldest son of Samuel Woodward the geologist, he was born at Norwich on 2 May 181 ...

(1816–1869), was librarian and keeper of the prints and drawings at Windsor Castle from 1860 until his death. The second son,

Samuel Pickworth Woodward Samuel Pickworth Woodward (17 September 1821 – 11 July 1865) was an English geologist and malacologist. Biography He was the son of the geologist Samuel Woodward. In 1845, S. P. Woodward became the professor of geology and natural history ...

(1821–1865), became in 1845 professor of geology and natural history in the

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, Cirencester, and in 1848 was appointed assistant in the department of geology and mineralogy in the British Museum. He was author of ''A Manual of the Mollusca'' (in three parts, 1851, 1853 and 1856). Samuel Woodward's youngest son,

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was also a noted geologist. See ''Memoir of S. Woodward'' (with bibliography) in ''Trans. Norfolk Nat. Soc.'' (1879), and of SP Woodward (with portrait and bibliography), Ibid. (1882), by HB Woodward. ---- *

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Woodward, Samuel 1790 births 1838 deaths Geologists from Norwich 19th-century English geologists Writers from Norwich