Stephen Hislop

Stephen Hislop
Salted paper print (ca 1845)
Born8 September 1817
Duns, Berwickshire, Scotland
Died4 September 1863
Bori River, Takalghat, India
Resting placeNagpur, India
NationalityScottish
EducationUniversity of Glasgow, University of Edinburgh
Occupation(s)Missionary; Geologist
EmployerFree Church of Scotland
SpouseErasma Hall
Parent(s)Stephen Hislop, Margaret Thomson

Stephen Hislop (8 September 1817, in Duns, Scotland – 4 September 1863, in Takalghat) was a Scottish missionary who worked with the Free Church in India, an educationist and a keen geologist. Hislop College, Nagpur is named after him, as is the green mineral Hislopite. Among his geological discoveries is the fossil reptile, Brachyops laticeps which he found in his geological explorations of the Nagpur region.[1]

  1. ^ Owen, Richard (1854). "Description of the Cranium of a Labyrinthodont Reptile (Brachyops laticeps) from Mangali, Central India". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. 10 (1–2): 473–474. doi:10.1144/GSL.JGS.1854.010.01-02.55. ISSN 0370-291X. S2CID 219230617.