Identity area
Type of entity
Authorized form of name
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
History
Bonney, Thomas George; eldest son of Rev.Thomas Bonney, Perpetual Curate of Pipe Ridware, Staffs., and Head Master, Rugeley GS, and Eliza Ellen, dau. of Edward Smith, Rugeley, Staffs. ; b. 27 Jul 1833 ; ed. Uppingham Sch. and St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 23 Jun 1852, matr.Mich.1852, scholar ; 12th Wrangler 1856 ; BA 1856 ; MA 1859 ; BD 1866 ; ScD 1884 ; Assistant Master (Mathematics) 1856-61 ; “a most inspiring teacher” who gave “refreshing help as our mathematical master” (obituary notice in Elizabethan, June 1924) ; ordained deacon 1857, priest 1858 (both London) ; Curate, St.John’s, Smith Square, Westminster 1857-9 ; Fellow, St.John’s Coll. Cambridge from 1859, Junior Dean 1861, Tutor 1868-76 ; Lecturer in Geology, Cambridge Univ. 1869-81 ; Whitehall Preacher 1876-8 ; Hulsean Lecturer 1884 ; Boyle Lecturer 1890-2 ; Rede Lecturer 1892 ; Yates-Goldsmid Professor of Geology, University Coll., London 1877-1901 ; returned to live in Cambridge 1905 ; General Secretary, British Association 1881, President 1910 ; President, Geological Society 1884-6 ; FRS 1878, Vice-Pres. 1899 ; FSA ; Hon.Canon, Manchester, from 1887 ; a Governor of the School 27 Oct 1881 – Mar 1922 ; author, publications on geology, the Alps and religion ; d. unm. 9 Dec 1923. Elder brother of Francis Taylor Bonney (qv). ODNB.
Places
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Access points area
Subject access points
Place access points
Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2022
Language(s)
Script(s)
Sources
Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.