# Talbot Whitehead

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'''Talbot Haes Whitehead''' [FRSE](/source/FRSE) FGS (1890–1966) was a 20th-century [British](/source/British_people) geologist.

==Life==
He was born in [London](/source/London) on 24 May 1890. He studied Sciences at [University College, London](/source/University_College%2C_London), graduating BSc in 1912. In 1913, aged only 23, he was elected a Fellow of the [Geological Society](/source/Geological_Society). He was appointed as a Geologist to the [British Geological Survey](/source/British_Geological_Survey) in 1914, but this was disrupted by the war.

In the [First World War](/source/First_World_War) he served with the [Royal Fusiliers](/source/Royal_Fusiliers) and [Suffolk Regiment](/source/Suffolk_Regiment), and saw action at [Gallipoli](/source/Gallipoli) and on the Somme. He reached the rank of Captain and was severely wounded in action and spent the final year working with the Intelligence section of the War Office.<ref name="auto">{{Cite journal|title=Geological Survey (Scottish Office) Mr. T. H. Whitehead|date=December 1, 1945|journal=Nature|volume=156|issue=3973|pages=743|doi=10.1038/156743b0|doi-access=free|bibcode=1945Natur.156R.743. }}</ref>

Returning to the BGS he was promoted to District Geologist in 1935 and was responsible in particular for ensuring British coal and [iron ore](/source/iron_ore) supplies during the [Second World War](/source/Second_World_War). He was promoted to Assistant Director in 1945 in succession to [Murray Macgregor](/source/Murray_Macgregor).<ref name="auto"/> He was awarded the [Murchison Fund](/source/Murchison_Fund) by the [Geological Society](/source/Geological_Society) in 1933.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/About/awards-grants-and-bursaries/society-awards/murchison-fund |title=Murchison Fund|publisher=The Geological Society|accessdate= 28 April 2020}}</ref>

He was elected a Fellow of the [Royal Society of Edinburgh](/source/Royal_Society_of_Edinburgh) in 1946 for his contributions to [geology](/source/geology). His proposers were [W. F. P. McLintock](/source/W._F._P._McLintock), Sir [Edward Battersby Bailey](/source/Edward_Battersby_Bailey), [Murray Macgregor](/source/Murray_Macgregor), [James Ernest Richey](/source/James_Ernest_Richey), Sir [A. E. Trueman](/source/A._E._Trueman) and [Arthur Holmes](/source/Arthur_Holmes).<ref>{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=978-0-902198-84-5|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|archive-date=4 March 2016|access-date=9 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

He retired in 1952 and died on 5 April 1966.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bgs.ac.uk/discoveringGeology/geologyOfBritain/archives/pioneers/pioneers.cfc?method=viewRecord&personId=247&currentTab=tab_W|title=Talbot Haes Whitehead &#124; Pioneers of the British Geological Survey &#124; British Geoscientists &#124; Discovering geology &#124; British Geological Survey (BGS)|website=www.bgs.ac.uk}}</ref>

==Publications==

*''[http://pubs.bgs.ac.uk/publications.html?pubID=B01811 The Geology of the Southern Part of the South Staffordshitre Coalfield]''
*''The Welsh Borderland''
*''Geology of the Country between Dudley and Bridgnorth''
*''Geology of the Country around Birmingham''

==Family==

In 1920 he married Nora Margaret Wilson.

==References==
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