Henry William Crosskey

Henry William Crosskey

Henry William Crosskey (December 7, 1826 - October 1, 1893), English geologist and Unitarian minister, was born at Lewes in Sussex.

After being trained for the ministry at Manchester New College (1843-1848), he became pastor of Friargate chapel, Derby, until 1852, when he accepted charge of a Unitarian congregation in Glasgow. In 1869 he removed to Birmingham, where until the close of his life he was pastor of the Church of the Messiah.

While in Glasgow his interest was awakened in geology by the perusal of AC Ramsay's "Geology of the Isle of Arran", and from 1855 onwards he devoted his leisure to the pursuit of this science. He became an authority on glacial geology, and wrote much, especially in conjunction with David Robertson, on the post-tertiary fossiliferous beds of Scotland ("Trans. Geol. Soc. Glasgow").

He also prepared for the British Association a valuable series of "Reports" (1873-1892) on the erratic "Blocks of England, Wales and Ireland". In conjunction with David Robertson and George Stewardson Brady (1832-1921) he wrote the "Monograph of the Post Tertiary Entomostraca of Scotland", etc. for the Palaeontographical Society (1874); and he edited Henry Carvill Lewis's "Papers and Notes on the Glacial Geology of Great Britain and Ireland", issued posthumously (1894). He died at Edgbaston, Birmingham, on 1 October 1893.

See "H. W. Crosskey: his Life and Work", by RA Armstrong (with chapter on his geological work by Prof. C Lapworth, 1895).

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