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Last Name Beche
Given Name Henry Thomas De la
alt. Names H. T. d. l. B. ; Sir Henry / H. T. de la Beche / Henri de la Bêche ;
Marriage
Children daughter Elizabeth De la Beche (known as Bessie), mother of butterfly coll. & artist ->Mary de la Bêche Nicholl
Year born 1796 London
Year died 1855
Place of death London
Father's occupation army officer, plantation owner in Jamaica
Relatives
Education geology from Mary Anning, Great Marlow Military College
Country of Activity Jamaica
Worked for William Daniel Conybeare: fossil genera Ichthyosaurus Plesiosaurus, Trans Geol. Soc. 1822 ; William Buckland;
Patronage 1835 Geological Survey of Great Britain; Royal Society, Geological Society of London, Museum of Practical Geology, Museum of Economic Geology
Collaborators lithographer -> G. Scharf Sr. ; lithographer ->T. Webster ; lithographer -> George Rowe ; lithographer Mary Anning ; publisher Hullmandel ;
Techniques paleontological and geological line drawing, watercolour, and painting ; geological cartography : cartoons ;
Sample(s) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_la_Beche#mediaviewer/File:Duria_Antiquior.jpg ; historyofgeology.fieldofscience.com/2010/10/geology-history-in-caricatures ;
Archival sources historyofgeology.fieldofscience.com/2010/10/geology-history-in-caricatures.html ; www.bgs.ac.uk/discoveringGeology/geologyOfBritain/archives/DeLaBeche
Published sources Langer 1978: 373, 376 & 391 ; Lawrence J. Chubb on HTDB ; Martin Rudwick: The Great Devonian Controversy (Chicago 1985) ; Rudwick: Scenes from Deep Time (Chicago 1992) ; Davidson 2008: 50-54 & 98 ;
other Further Places of Activity: England, France (1823-1824), Jamaica, and Switzerland.
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