{{Short description|British geologist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} <!-- {{Notability|Academics|date=July 2012}} --> {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = Professor | name = Edward Howel Francis | honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FRSE|FGS}} | birth_date = 31 May 1924 | birth_place = South Wales, UK | death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|5|22|1924|5|31|df=y}} | alma_mater = University College, Swansea | occupation = Geologist, Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences }}
'''Edward Howel Francis''' (31 May 1924 – 22 May 2014) was a British geologist and Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Leeds.<ref name="AllenSurvey2003">{{cite book|last1=Allen|first1=P. M.|last2=Survey|first2=British Geological|title=A geological survey in transition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CinwAAAAMAAJ|access-date=18 May 2011|date=2003-01-01|publisher=British Geological Survey|isbn=978-0-85272-426-2|page=54|quote=Professor Howel Francis, an ex-member of BGS staff, ...}}</ref><ref name="Obituary, University of Leeds">[http://www.leeds.ac.uk/secretariat/obituaries/2014/francis_howel.html Obituary, University of Leeds]</ref> He was President of the Geological Society of London from 1980 to 1982.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/~/link.aspx?_id=773BC90B-60F7-4355-B084-1414BC01C865&_z=z |title=Past Presidents |publisher=The Geological Society of London |year=2012 |access-date=7 March 2013}}</ref>
==Biography== Francis was born in south Wales and went to school in Port Talbot. He was called up for military service after two years, commissioned in the Cheshire Regiment and served in the Mediterranean.<ref name="TRSE" /> After three years in the Army, he graduated from University College, Swansea (now Swansea University) in 1949. He joined the Institute of Geological Sciences (now the British Geological Survey) where he rose through the ranks from field geologist in Scotland to Assistant Director for Northern England and Wales, based in Leeds.
In 1977 Francis was appointed Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Leeds. He retired from his chair with the title Emeritus Professor in 1989 and was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of University College, Swansea in the same year.<ref name="Obituary, University of Leeds"/>
==Honours==
* Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1962) * Awarded the Murchison Fund of the Geological Society of London (1963) * DSc, University of Wales (1969) * Clough Medal of the Edinburgh Geological Society (1983)<ref name="EGS-GA" /> * Sorby Medal of the Yorkshire Geological Society (1983) * Major John Sacheverell A’Deane Coke Medal of the Geological Society of London (1989)<ref name="Obituary, University of Leeds"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/en/About/History/Award%20Winners%20Since%201831/Coke%20Medals |title=Coke medals |publisher=The Geological Society of London |year=2012 |access-date=7 March 2013}}</ref>
==Publications== <!-- {{Empty section|date=April 2013}} --> * ''The Carboniferous period''. Edward Howel Francis, B.SC., F.R.S.E., F.G.S. and Austin William Woodland, PH.D., F.G.S. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 1964, v. 1, p. 221-232.<ref name="TGS-TCP" /> * ''Caledonide volcanism in Britain and Ireland''. C.J. Stillman and E.H. Francis. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 1979, v. 8, p. 555-577.<ref name="TGS-CVBI" /> * ''Mid-Devonian to early Permian volcanism: Old World''. E.H. Francis. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 1988, v. 38, p. 573-584.<ref name="TGS-MDEPV" />
==References== {{Reflist|2|refs= <ref name="EGS-GA">{{cite web|title=Geology Awards|url=http://www.edinburghgeolsoc.org/home/medallists-and-award-winners/|publisher=Edinburgh Geological Society|access-date=31 May 2017}}</ref> <ref name="TGS-CVBI">{{cite journal|title=Special Publications| journal=Geological Society, London, Special Publications | date=January 1979 | volume=8 | issue=1 | pages=555–577 |url=http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/8/1/555.abstract?sid=1107efa3-00ee-4709-a03c-9b0079ac19a4|publisher=The Geological Society| doi=10.1144/GSL.SP.1979.008.01.67 |access-date=31 May 2017 | last1=Stillman | first1=C. J. | last2=Francis | first2=E. H. | url-access=subscription }}</ref> <ref name="TGS-MDEPV">{{cite journal|title=Special Publications| journal=Geological Society, London, Special Publications | date=January 1988 | volume=38 | issue=1 | pages=573–584 |url=http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/38/1/573.abstract?sid=831bf159-970d-4898-9176-b8cccd485986|publisher=The Geological Society| doi=10.1144/GSL.SP.1988.038.01.39 |access-date=31 May 2017 | last1=Francis | first1=E. H. | url-access=subscription }}</ref> <ref name="TGS-TCP">{{cite journal|title=Special Publications|journal=Geological Society, London, Special Publications |date=January 1964 |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=221–232 |url=http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/1/1/221.abstract|publisher=The Geological Society|doi=10.1144/GSL.SP.1964.001.01.21 |access-date=31 May 2017 |last1=Francis |first1=Edward Howel |last2=Woodland |first2=Austin William |url-access=subscription }}</ref> <ref name="TRSE">{{cite web|last1=Craig|first1=Gordon Y|title=Professor Edward Howel Francis, BSc, DSc, FRSE, FGS|url=https://www.rse.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/obits_alpha/francis_eh.pdf|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|access-date=31 May 2017}}</ref> }}
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