Edward Hull M.A., L.L.D.

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, F.R.S., a geologist

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 and stratigrapher, held the position of Director of the
Geological Survey of Ireland

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. He was also a professor of geology in the Royal College of Science

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, Dublin. His dates are listed in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

He was born in Antrim

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, Ireland

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, the eldest son of the Reverend J.D. Hull. He graduated BA from Trinity College, Dublin

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.

He joined the Geological Survey of Ireland and worked in Wales and Lancashire. He worked for the Geological Survey of Scotland (1867-1868) and led an expedition to survey parts of Arabia Petraea and Palestine (1883). He became Director of the Irish branch of the Survey and retired in 1891. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June, 1967.

Edward Hull’s obituarist wrote of him, “He maintained the honour of a gentleman.” Geological Magazine, n.s. decade 6, IV (1917), 553-5, at page 555.

Works

• The Physical Geology and Geography of Ireland, published by Edward Stranforth, London, 1878.
• The Wallchart of World History
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• The Coal-fields of Great Britain: Their History, Structure and Resources 1861, in which Hull mentions the coal fields of Arley, and in which he suggests that the Romans may have mined for coal.
• Geology of Belfast and the Lagan Valley: (One-Inch Geological Sheet 36) by H. E. Wilson and Edward Hull and Manning, P. I. and James Andrew Robbie.
• Memoirs of a Strenuous Life (his 1909 autobiography)