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20 Sep 1784
Sir Richard John Griffith |
birth Sir Richard John Griffith Born 20 Sep 1784; died 22 Sep 1878 at age 94. (1st Baronet) Irish geologist and civil engineer who has sometimes been called the "father of Irish geology." He studied civil engineering in London and Edinburgh, returned to Ireland in 1808, and became mining engineer to the Royal Dublin Society in 1812 and a government inspector of mines. He published a geological map of Ireland in 1835. |
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