{{Short description|British geologist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} Sir '''Lazarus Fletcher''' (3 March 1854 – 6 January 1921) was a British geologist.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=FLETCHER, Lazarus|magazine=Who's Who|year=1907|volume= 59|page=612|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yEcuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA612}}</ref> He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1889 and won the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society in 1912. Fletcher was knighted in 1916.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Nature|title=obit. Sir Lazarus Fletcher, F.R.S.|date=13 January 1921|volume=106|pages=636–637|doi=10.1038/106636a0|issue=2672|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=29483 |date=22 February 1916 |pages=1946-1947}}</ref>
Fletcher was Keeper of Mineralogy at the Natural History Museum from 1880 to 1909, and director from 1909 to 1919.<ref name="BN" />
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="BN">{{cite web|last1=Miers|first1=Henry|title=Biographical Notice of Sir Lazarus Fletcher|url=http://www.minersoc.org/pages/Archive-MM/Volume_19/19-93-181.pdf|accessdate=3 March 2017}}</ref> }}
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