Person

Pritchard, George Baxter (1869 - 1956)

Born: 17 October 1869
Gravesend, Kent, England
Died: 2 August 1956
Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
Occupation: Geologist

Summary

George Pritchard was Head of the School of Mines at the Working Men's College (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) from 1897 to 1934. He also lectured at the University of Melbourne and at Gordon Technical College in Geelong. After Pritchard retired he taught at two Melbourne secondary schools and worked as a private geological consultant for oil searches in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia. He published largely in the area of tertiary stratigraphy and mollusc palaeontology.

Details

Chronology

1891: Career position - Demonstrator and Assistant in Natural Science, University of Adelaide
1892 - 1897: Career position - Instructor in Geology and Mineralogy at the Working Men's College in Melbourne
1897 - 1934: Career position - Head and Lecturer of Metallurgy and Assaying at the School of Mines, Working Men's College
1899: Career position - Joint Acting-Professor of Natural Science, University of Melbourne
1908: Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne
1911: Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Melbourne
1934: Career position - Retired from all university appointments
c. 1935 - c. 1936: Career position - Teacher (part-time) at Trinity Grammar School in Kew, Victoria
1939 - 1947: Career position - Teacher (part-time) at Scotch College, Victoria

Related Corporate Bodies

Working Men's College (1882 - 1933)
Head and Lecturer, Metallurgy and Assaying, School of Mines, 1897-1934; Instructor in Geology and Mineralogy, 1892-1897

Published resources

Books

Pritchard, G. B., Old Yarra history as told by the geology of Burnley, Heyington, Tooronga (Melbourne: F. W. Cheshire, 1944), 32 pp. Details

Book Sections

Darragh, Thomas A., 'Pritchard, George Baxter (1869-1956), geologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 11: 1891 - 1939 Nes-Smi, Geoffrey Serle, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1988), pp. 300-301. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110308b.htm. Details

Resources

Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24218747. Details
'Pritchard, G B (1869-1956)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-571315. Details
'Pritchard, George Baxter (1869 - 1956), Geologist', RMIT University History, RMIT University Archives, 2022, https://www.lib.rmit.edu.au/university-archives/finding-aids/ohrm/web/browse_p_people.htm. Details

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