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James Haward Taylor

James Haward Taylor

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James Haward Taylor FRS (24 February 1909;–25 January 1968) was a British geologist who served as president of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland from 1963 to 1965.[1]

He was educated at Clifton College,[2] King's College London (BSc with 1st Class Hons, AKC, Jelf Medal (Natural Science)), Harvard University (AM, 1934), and the University of London (PhD, 1936).[3]

He was Professor of Geology at King's College London. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1960.

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  1. [1]
    "Biographical Memoirs - James Haward Taylor. 1909-1968" (PDF). Royal Society. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  2. [2]
    "Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p409: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948
  3. [3]
    ‘TAYLOR, Prof. James Haward’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014


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