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Last Name Webster

Given Name Thomas

alt. Names T. W. ;

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Year born 1773 Orkney, Scotland

Year died 1844

Place of death London, England

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Education Aberdeen; architecture in London;

Country of Activity United Kingdom

Worked for William Daniel Conybeare: Fossil genera Ichthyosaurus Plesiosaurus, Trans Geol. Soc. 1822 ; Henry Charlges Englefield (1752-1822): Isle of Wight (1816) ; T. W. & John Imison: Elements of Science and Art (1808) ;

Patronage 1826 was curator to Geological Society of London & illustator of Transactions; University College

Collaborators draftsman H. T. de la Beche ; lithographier G Scharf Sr. ;

Techniques geological and paleontological watercolour, drawing, and aquatinta ;

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Archival sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Webster_(geologist) ; www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n84-160119/ ;

Published sources Hugh Chisholm ed Encyclopedia Britannica 1911 ; Davidson 2008: 189 ;

other Prof. of geology; honorary member of Sketch Society.

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