LC control no. | n 88126761 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Fowler, G. Herbert (George Herbert), 1861-1940 |
Variant(s) | Fowler, George Herbert, 1861-1940 |
See also | Founded corporate body of person: Challenger Society for the Promotion of the Study of Oceanography Founded corporate body of person: Bedfordshire Historical Record Society |
Associated country | England |
Birth date | 1861 |
Death date | 1940 |
Field of activity | Zoology Oceanography |
Affiliation | Challenger Society for the Promotion of the Study of Oceanography Bedfordshire Historical Record Society |
Profession or occupation | Zoologists Archivists Historians |
Found in | Early Buckinghamshire charters [MI] 1939: t.p. (G. Herbert Fowler) NUC pre-1956 (hdg.: Fowler, George Herbert, 1861-1940; usage: G. Herbert Fowler) Challenger Society for Marine Science website, September 22, 2016: origins (founders: George Herbert Fowler was born in 1861 and was a professor of zoology at University College London in 1891; resigned from UCL in 1909. Together with Richard Norris Wolfenden, founded the Challenger Society for Marine Science in 1903 and served as its Secretary until 1910; oceanography occupied less of his time thereafter and in the last 30 years of his life, he became interested in local history and its sources, establishing himself as an archivist and medieval historian; he also established the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society in 1912) <http://www.challenger-society.org.uk/> |
Associated language | eng |