Thomas George Bonney

Thomas George Bonney was an English geologist and clergyman born July 27, 1833, in Rugeley, Staffordshire, England, who died December 10, 1923, in Cambridge, England, and who specialized in the igneous and metamorphic rocks of Alpine regions and of English localities including the Lizard in Cornwall, Salcombe, Charnwood Forest, Wales and the Scottish Highlands. He served as a mathematical master at Westminster School from 1856 to 1861 before turning to geology as tutor and lecturer at St John College, Cambridge, from 1868, and held the professorship of geology at University College London from 1877 to 1901, publishing The Story of our Planet in 1893 and Volcanoes in 1899. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1878, served as president of the Geological Society of London from 1884 to 1886, secretary and later president of the British Association, president of the Mineralogical Society and president of the Alpine Club from 1881 to 1883, and he received the Wollaston Medal in 1889; Lake Bonney in Antarctica is named in his honor.