Wheelton Hind


Wheelton Hind was an English surgeon and geologist.

Education and career

Wheelton Hind studied medicine at Guy's Hospital Medical School. He qualified Membership of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of [Great Britain and Ireland|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.
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. Following Charles Lapworth's pioneering method of studying index fossils, Hind applied the method to the stratigraphy of Carboniferous rocks in Staffordshire.
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 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.

Family

Wheelton Hind was the third son of the botanist, Reverend William Marsden Hind. He was rector of Honington, Suffolk, and author of The Flora of Suffolk. Wheelton Hind married Wilhelmina Maria Manfield in 1884. His mother was Rev. Hind's second wife, Anne Wheelton, the daughter of John Wheelton, who had married in 1856.

Honours and awards

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".

Selected publications

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