Jethro Harris Teall
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Prof., Sir Jethro Justinian Harris Teall D.Sc OBE (5/1/1849-2/7/1924)
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Biography
Born 5 Jan 1849, son of Jethro Teall of Sandwich Kent (who died June 1848).
1873 Received the first award of the University of Cambridge Sedgwick Prize for an essay on a geological topic: The Potton & Wicken Phosphatic Deposits.
Married, 2 June 1879, Harriet daughter of George Roberts Cowen of Nottingham, ironfounder.
Died 2 July 1924 at his residence 174 Rosendale Road, London SE21, where his widow continued to live until her death in 1940.
Sons
George Harris Teall 24 October 1880; At Dulwich College 1893-98. Military career. Died 1939
Frederic Hathaway Teall 8 May 1882; At Dulwich College until 1900. Served in Egyptian police. Died 1952
Association with Dulwich College
Appointed Governor 1913 by Royal Soc. retired 1921; Co-opted 1921, retired 1922; Re-appointed 1922 (until his death) by LCC.
Education and Career
Educated Northleach Grammar School 1857-62.
Berkeley Villa School Cheltenham 1862-67.
St John's College Cambridge: 1st class in Natural Scinces 1872.
BA 1873.
Sedgwick Prize 1874.
MA 1876.
Fellow 1875-79.
14 January 1885 presented seminal paper "The Metamorphosis of Dolerite into Hornblende-schist" to Geological Society of London.
Director Geological Survey 1st March 1901 - 5th January 1914 (his 65th birthday).
Geological Society:
Bigsby Medal (for study of American geology) 1889.
Wollaston Medal (highest award of society) 1905.
President 1900-02.
FRS 1890; Vice-president (elected 05/06/1890) 1900-01.
Delesse Prize, Academy of Science Paris, 1907, for his researches in petrography.
Knighted 1916.
DSc: Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin; LLD: St Andrew's.
Known Addresses
12, Cumberland Road, Kew. 1888
2, Sussex-gardens, West Dulwich, S.E. 1890
89, Thurlow Park Road, West Dulwich, S.E. 1900-01
174, Rosendale Road, London SE21. 1924
Teall's signature from a letter written 29 November 1886, and now held by the Cambridge University Library:
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Collection activity by county
1884
1918
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References and External Links
Teall has an entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
