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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Oldham    
First Name(s)  Thomas    
Birth Year  1816    
Death Year  1878    
Entry  Born May 4, 1816 : son of Thomas Oldham : educated privately and at Trinity College, Dublin : studied, 1837-8, at the Engineering School, Edinburgh : became assistant in the Geological Department in Ireland in 1839 : Professor of Geology at Trinity College, Dublin, 1845 : President of the Dublin Geological Society, 1846 ; and Director of the Geological Survey of Ireland. Went to India in 1851 as Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India, having to organize the Department : besides his annual reports, Palaeontologica Indica, and other publications of the Indian Geological Survey, he wrote a number of papers in the Journal of the Geological Society of London : retired in 1876. He was four times President of the Asiatic Society of Bengal : member of the Royal Irish Academy : F.G.S., F.R.S. : and medallist : member of the Royal Irish Academy : LL.D. of Dublin : died July 17, 1878.     
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