{{Short description|English surgeon and geologist (1860–1920)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox scientist | name = | image = <!--(filename only)--> | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = 1860<ref>{{cite journal|title=Obituary. Wheelton Hind|journal=Geological Magazine|year=1920|volume=57|pages=476–480|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101075890044&view=1up&seq=510}}</ref> | birth_place = Roxeth | death_date = {{death date|1920|06|21}} | death_place = Stoke-on-Trent | fields = surgery; geology | workplaces = | alma_mater = | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = | awards = }} '''Wheelton Hind''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRCS|FRGS}} (1860, Roxeth–1920) was an English surgeon and geologist.<ref name=Plarr>{{cite web|url=http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E002232b.htm|title=Hind, Wheelton - Biographical entry - Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online}}</ref>
==Education and career== Wheelton Hind studied medicine at Guy's Hospital Medical School. He qualified MRCS in 1882. He graduated MB BS Lond in 1883. He was a house surgeon and resident obstetric physician at Guy's Hospital. He received his medical research MD in 1884.<ref name=Plarr/>
{{blockquote|At the London University he won the Gold Medal and Scholarship in organic chemistry and gained 1st class honours in physiology. He then settled in practice at Stoke-on-Trent, was Surgeon to the North Stafford Infirmary and Eye Institution, Consulting Medical Officer to the Union Infirmary, Medical Officer to the North Stafford Deaf and Blind School, and Surgeon to the North Stafford Railway.<ref name=Plarr/>}}
Throughout his medical practice his chief recreation was field work in geology. His first published work in 1887 was an account of "The Natural Features of Geology of Suffolk" in his father's work ''The Flora of Suffolk''.<ref name="Plarr" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Hind |first=W.M. |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006216806 |title=The flora of Suffolk: a topographical enumeration of the plants of the county, showing the results of former observations and of the most recent researches by W. M. Hind; assisted by Churchill Babington; with an introductory chapter of the geology, climate and meteorology of Suffolk by Wheelton Hind. |publisher=Gurney & Jackson |year=1889 |location=London}}</ref> Following Charles Lapworth's pioneering method of studying index fossils, Hind applied the method to the stratigraphy of Carboniferous rocks in Staffordshire.
{{blockquote|His success in discovering the regular order in which the different assemblages of fossils occurred in Staffordshire and Derbyshire gradually led him further afield. He co-operated with members of the Geological Survey, and after extended researches in Lancashire and Yorkshire he joined Mr. J. Allen Howe in 1901 in contributing to the Geological Society of London a fundamentally important memoir on the classification of the Lower Carboniferous rocks of north-central England.<ref name=Nature>{{cite journal|journal=Nature|title=Obituary. Wheelton Hind|date=1 July 1920|volume=105|issue=2644|page=555|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/105555a0}}</ref>}}
Wheelton Hind published numerous articles in the ''Transactions of the North Staffordshire Naturalists' Field Club''. His monograph ''On the Lamellibranch and Gasteropod Fauna found in the Millstone Grit of Scotland'' was a revision of the stratigraphy of Carboniferous Mollusca<ref name=Plarr/> and won him the honour of the Keith Medal.
In 1914 he rapidly recruited men to form a battery of Garrison Artillery, and led them to the Western Front. The battery fought in some important engagements. He was soon transferred as Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel RAMC and returned to England at the end of WWI.<ref name=Plarr/>
==Family== Wheelton Hind was the third son of the botanist, Reverend William Marsden Hind. He was rector of Honington, Suffolk (near Ixworth), and author of ''The Flora of Suffolk''.<ref name=Plarr/> Wheelton Hind married Wilhelmina Maria Manfield (b. 1859) in 1884.<ref>{{cite web|title=Wilhelmina Maria Hind|website=People of Stoke-on-Trent, thepotteries.org|url=http://www.thepotteries.org/people/hind_wilhelmina.htm}}</ref> His mother was Rev. Hind's second wife, Anne Wheelton, the daughter of John Wheelton, who had married in 1856.<ref name="Helliwell (2021)">{{cite journal |last1=Helliwell |first1=Jane |title=The Life and Career of William Marsden Hind |journal=Suffolk Review |date=2021 |volume=New Series |issue=76 |pages=2–16}}</ref>
==Honours and awards== * {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1888}}|event=Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRSC)}} * {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1897}}|event=Garner Medal}} * {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1907}}|event=Keith Medal}} * {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1917}}|event=Lyell Medal}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lyell Medal |url=https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/About/Awards-Grants-and-Bursaries/Society-Awards/Lyell-Medal |access-date=2022-05-16 |website=The Geological Society of London}}</ref>
In 1897, he was awarded the North Staffordshire Field Club's Garner Medal "for his researches into the geology and palæontology of the carboniferous period, and especially for his monographs on the ''Carbonicola'', ''Anthracomya'', and ''Naiadites'', published by the Palæontographical Society".<ref name="NSFCAR-1908">{{cite journal |title=Garner Medal |journal=North Staffordshire Field Club Annual Report and Transactions |date=1908 |page=9}}</ref>
==Selected publications== * {{cite book |title=A Monograph on Carbonicola, Anthracomya, and Nadiadites, ''1894–1896'' |location=London |publisher=Printed for the Palæontographical Society by Adlard & Son |volume=3 parts |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011812394}} * {{cite book|title=A Monograph of the British Carboniferous Lamellibranchiata, ''1896–1905''|publisher=Printed for the Palæontographical Society by Adlard & Son|volume=2 vols.|location=London|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100157779}} * {{cite journal|title=Le Faunes conchyliologiques de terrain houiller de la Belgique étudiées dans leur rapports avec les faunes homotaxiales de houiller d'Angleterre|journal=Mémoires du Musée royal d'Histoire naturelle de Belgique|volume=21|year=1911|pages=3–15|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210014442279&view=1up&seq=265}}
==References== <references/>
==External links== * {{wikisource author-inline|Wheelton Hind}} {{authority control}}
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