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William Trevelyan Harry FRSE FGS (1911–1964) was a British geologist and academic author. He specialised in the geology of Greenland and north-east Canada.

Life[edit]

He was born in Yorkshire in northern England around 1911.

In the Second World War he did military service in Burma, interrupting his university career at Leeds University, where he eventually graduated BSc in 1947. He thereafter immediately began a career as a lecturer in Geology at University College, Dundee. In 1955 he transferred to St Andrews University as a Senior Lecturer.

In 1961 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Charles Findlay Davidson, James Ernest Richey, James Phemister, William Quarrier Kennedy and Harald Irving Drever.[1]

He died on 20 June 1964.[2]

Publications[edit]

Family[edit]

He married Dorothy May Stowe and had one son, William R Harry.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X.
  • ^ "The Geological Society of London - Obituaries - H". www.geolsoc.org.uk.
  • ^ "Family Group Sheet for William Trevelyan Harry / Dorothy May Stowe (F26699): Red1st". www.red1st.com.

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