Henry Hurd Swinnerton

Not to be confused with American geologist A.C. Swinnerton

Henry Hurd Swinnerton (1875–1966) was a British geologist. He was professor of geology at University College Nottingham from 1910 to 1946.

Swinnerton was educated at the Royal College of Science, and earned a doctorate in zoology (D.Sc.) from the University of London in July 1902.[1]

In the 1930s Swinnerton was a member of the Fenland Research Committee, contributing valuable knowledge of the geomorphology of the Lincolnshire coast.[2] In 1937 he served as President of the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union; he gave his Presidential address on "The Problem of the Lincoln Gap".[3] In 1942 he was awarded the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London.

  1. ^ "University intelligence". The Times. No. 36829. London. 25 July 1902. p. 5.
  2. ^ Smith P.J. (1994). "Grahame Clark, the Fenland Research Committee and prehistory at Cambridge" (PDF). University of Cambridge. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 May 2011. Retrieved 8 March 2008.
  3. ^ Swinnerton, H.H. (1938). "The Problem of the Lincoln Gap". Transactions of the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union. 9: 145–153.