William Smellie (geologist)

Dr William Robert Smellie FRSE (c.1890–1973) was a 20th century Scottish geologist. He was Curator of the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow from 1914.[1]

Life

He graduated MA BSc from Glasgow University around 1910.

From 1911 he was a Demonstrator in Geology at Glasgow University. There he began assisting Prof John Walter Gregory at the university's Hunterian Museum and replaced him as Curator in 1914. He was absent for war duties 1916-17 but was invalided out. In 1920 he was joined by Ethel Currie as his assistant.

In 1920 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were John Walter Gregory, George Walter Tyrrell, Frederick Orpen Bower and John Horne.[2]

In the 1930s he became official Geologist to the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and was responsible for finding new oil fields in the Persian Gulf.

He died on 14 March 1973.

Publication

  • Igneous Rocks of Bute

References


  1. ↑ The Life and Work of Prof J W Gregory FRS by Bernard E Leslie
  2. ↑ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
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