G.P.S. was 2nd son of J. Poulett Thompson of Waverley Abbey, Surrey and his wife, Charlotte, the daughter of well-to-do Doctor John Jacob of Salisbury
educated at Harrow & at Pembroke College, Oxford, but in 1816 he entered St John's College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1821.
United Kingdom
G.P.S.: Considerations on Volcanoes, 1825; Memoir on the Geology and Extinct Volcanos of Central France. 1827 (reprint New York 1978); Volcanos: The Character of their Phenomena, 1872;
since 1825 secretary, jointly with Sir Charles Lyell, of the Geological Society of London; since 1826 member of the Royal Society London.
Through the influence of geologists Edward Clarke & Adam Sedgwick. G.P.S. became interested in mineralogy & geology; geologist Sir Charles Lyell
var. links at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Julius_Poulett_Scrope
Obit. in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 25 (1876): i-ii-iv; Nature, 27.1.1876; Academy 9, Jan/June 1876: 102-103; DNB 51: 135-7; Oxford DNB 2008; M.Rudwick: British Journal for the History of Science 44 (1974): 205-242
English geologist and political economist as well as a magistrate for Stroud in Gloucestershire, active in a series of expeditions in Auvergne, France, Southern Italy, esp. Etna & Naples region, the Pontine Islands, Eifel & other areas of notable current or past volcanism
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