Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn, CMG, LL.D, FRS, FGS (26 July 1824 – 19 October 1902) was a British geologist and public servant, director of the Geological...
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south of the Liard River and the aforesaid plateau. Named for Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn, director of the Geological Survey of Victoria from 1852 to 1869...
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Forest. John Selwyn Moll (1913–1942), English rugby player John Selwyn Gummer (born 1939), British politician Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn (1824–1902),...
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Hooker and Lyell were the two people Darwin consulted (by letter) when Alfred Russel Wallace's famous letter arrived at Down House, enclosing his paper...
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1888 by mountaineer Rev. William S. Green, Mount Selwyn was renamed to honor Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn (1824-1902), director of the Geological Survey...
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Kosciuszko, the highest mountain in Australia. Selwyn County was named in honour of geologist Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn (1824–1902). Map all coordinates using...
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Mount Elliott Mining Complex (section Selwyn Township)
the nearby Selwyn Ranges which were named, during Burke's expedition, after the Victorian Government Geologist, Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn. The town has...
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"Toulidesihontes" in 1759 on John Montresor's map. On the 1884 Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn of 1884, an Indian trail linked the Chaudière River, facing the...
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his father. In 1866 Etheridge came to Australia, working under Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn on the Victorian geological survey until it was terminated in...
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Davies 1874 John Jeremiah Bigsby 1875 William Jory Henwood 1876 Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn 1877 William Branwhite Clarke 1878 Hans Bruno Geinitz 1879 Frederick...
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east in 1873 and west in 1875, surveyors Charles Horetzky and Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn, respectively, failed to rediscover the pass. Joseph Hunter was...
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Francis Thompson, Richard Le Gallienne, John Gray, John Davidson, Edwin J. Ellis, Victor Plarr, Selwyn Image, Lord Alfred Douglas, Arthur Cecil Hillier, John...
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links for more information. Selwyn takes its name from the Selwyn Range, which was named in turn after Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn, a geologist who was Director...
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Dwight Dana (Geology) 1883: Ferdinand von Mueller (Botany) 1884: Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn (Geology) 1885: Joseph Dalton Hooker (Botany) 1886: Laurent-Guillaume...
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in surveying. In 1864 he joined the geological survey under Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn and was trained in geological work by Georg Heinrich Friedrich...
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of the Geological Survey of Canada, Sir William Edmond Logan, Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn, and to John William Dawson. In early 1872, the Geological Survey...
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(Selwyn) Michael Apted (Downing), Grammy Award winner David Armand (St Catharine's) Alexander Armstrong (Trinity), BAFTA joint winner Lord Richard Attenborough...
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Geological Survey of Victoria under Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn. In 1861 he became a field assistant to Richard Daintree with whom he was associated...
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Professional and academic associations Preceded by Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn President of the Royal Society of Canada 1896–1897 Succeeded by Félix-Gabriel...
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and academic associations Preceded by George Mercer Dawson President of the Royal Society of Canada 1894–1895 Succeeded by Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn...
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prairies. Macoun's reports from west attracted the notice of Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn, director of the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC), and in 1879...
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called Mugurank, meaning 'place of hammerstones'. Selwyn Rock, named after Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn who first discovered it in 1859, is a glaciated pavement...
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Sellius 1733-05-03 c. 1704–1767 Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn 1874-06-04 28 July 1824 – 19 October 1902 William Selwyn 1866-06-07 19 February 1806 – 24...
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(1950–1996), actor Vice-Admiral Alfred Carpenter (1881–1955), Victoria Cross recipient (Zeebrugge Raid) Charles Cecil (born 1962), video game designer...
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of Philosophy. her husband Peter Geach is buried with her. Richard Appleton, Master Selwyn College, Vicar of St. George's, Camberwell, Vicar of Ware....
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Maoate, Prime minister (1999–2002) Niue, associated state Commissioners Selwyn Digby Wilson, Resident commissioner (1968–197?) Representatives Terry Baker...
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Gibson-Watt Robin Chichester-Clark 28 July 1960 Harold Macmillan (First Lord) Selwyn Lloyd (Chancellor of the Exchequer) Michael Hughes-Young Paul Bryan Graeme...
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E. Henley - Herbert Horne - A. E. Housman - Selwyn Image - Lionel Johnson - Rudyard Kipling - Richard Le Gallienne - Eugene Lee-Hamilton - Alice Meynell...
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Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. p. 51. "AVERILL, Most Reverend Alfred Walter...
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Samuel Goldwyn (category Cecil B. DeMille Award Golden Globe winners)
In 1916, Goldfish partnered with Broadway producers Edgar and Archibald Selwyn, using a combination of both names to call their film-making enterprise...
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