John Wesley Judd

John Wesley Judd was a British geologist born February 18, 1840, in Portsmouth, England, who died March 3, 1916, and who specialized in volcanology and geological mapping, researching volcanic districts in Italy and Scotland and publishing major studies of Scotland secondary rocks. He was appointed professor of geology at what became Imperial College in 1876, succeeding Andrew Ramsay, served as dean of the Royal College of Science, retired in 1905, and mentored influential geologists including Edgeworth David and William Fraser Hume. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1877 on a nomination that included Charles Darwin, served as president of the Geological Society from 1886 to 1888, was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1895, served as vice president of the Royal Society from 1902 to 1904, and received the Wollaston Medal in 1891.