Geological Survey (Scottish Office) Mr. T. H. Whitehead

Abstract

DR. MURRAY MACGREGOR is succeeded at Edinburgh by Mr. T. H. Whitehead, who joined the Geological Survey in 1914. During the First World War he served in the Suffolk Regiment, reaching the rank of captain, was severely wounded and afterwards was appointed to the Intelligence Staff. Among his important published work is the Geological Survey memoir on the South Staffordshire Coalfield, in which he collaborated with T. Eastwood, now assistant director in England; other memoirs of which he is a principal author are those on Coventry, Birmingham, Stafford, Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury. In 1933 he was transferred to the Manchester branch office, and from 1935 until it was closed in 1938 he was in charge of that at York. During the War he has been the district geologist responsible for urgent revision work on the coal and other resources of the Midlands, and for the six-inch survey, now completed, of all the Jurassic and Cretaceous iron-ores south of the Humber. Whitehead's judicial mind and terse clarity in argument are acknowledged and admired by his colleagues of the Survey and Museum, whom he has served well both as counsellor and advocate, and by his fellow-members of the Council of the Geological Society. These qualities, coupled with his extensive and intimate knowledge of British geology and its economic applications, make him admirably suited for his new post.