Thomas John Jehu (19 February 1871 – 18 July 1943) was a British physician and geologist. The Jehu-Campbell Fossil Collection at the

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was donated by Jehu in combination with Robert Campbell and is now the main component of their “Highland Border Series” of fossils. Many of the fossils come from the

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area.

Life

He was born in Mill House,

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, in

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in 1871, the son of a miller, John Jehu. He was educated at

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High School. He then studied medicine at the

graduating MB ChB in 1893. He did a further year of science gaining a further degree (BSc) then went to the

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, where he gained a further MA in science. Despite gaining his doctorate as a physician (MD), he chose an academic life, first lecturing in geology at the

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then moving to the

in 1914. In 1904 he unsuccessfully tried for the chair in geology at the

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but lost to

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. In 1905 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were

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, and

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. He won the Society’s

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for the period 1925-27 and served as their Vice President 1929-32. He served on a commission on

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in 1908. In 1914 he succeeded Professor James Geikie as professor of geology at the

. In 1932 he oversaw the transfer of his department from Old College to

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where it was thereafter housed in the Grant Institute due to its endowment by Sir Alexander Grant. He remained a professor until death in Edinburgh, on 18 July 1943, aged 72, when he was succeeded by

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Family

In 1904 he married Annie Stewart.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jehu, Thomas James 1871 births 1943 deaths Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh British geologists Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Academics of the University of Edinburgh Fellows_of_the_Geological_Society_of_London