George Julius Poulett Scrope
George Julius Poulett Scrope FRS (10 March 1797 – 19 January 1876) was an English geologist and political economist as well as a Member of Parliament and magistrate for Stroud in Gloucestershire.While an undergraduate at Cambridge, through the influence of Edward Clarke and Adam Sedgwick he became interested in mineralogy and geology. During the winter of 1816–1817 he was at Naples, and was so keenly interested in Vesuvius that he renewed his studies of the volcano in 1818; and in the following year visited Etna and the Lipari Islands. In 1821 he married the daughter and heiress of William Scrope of Castle Combe, Wiltshire, and assumed her name; and he entered the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in 1833 as MP for Stroud, retaining his seat until 1868.
Meanwhile he began to study the volcanic regions of central France in 1821, and visited the Eifel district in 1823. In 1825 he published ''Considerations on Volcanos'', leading to the establishment of a new theory of the Earth, and in the following year was elected FRS. This earlier work was subsequently amplified and issued under the title of ''Volcanos'' (1862); an authoritative text-book of which a second edition was published ten years later. In 1827 he issued his classic ''Memoir on the Geology of Central France, including the Volcanic formations of Auvergne, the Velay and the Vivarais'', a quarto volume illustrated by maps and plates. The substance of this was reproduced in a revised and somewhat more popular form in ''The Geology and Extinct Volcanos of Central France'' (1858). These books were the first widely published descriptions of the Chaîne des Puys, a chain of over 70 small volcanoes in the Massif Central.
Scrope was awarded the Wollaston Medal by the Geological Society of London in 1867. Among his other works was the ''History of the Manor and Ancient Barony of Castle Combe'' (printed for private circulation, 1852). Provided by Wikipedia
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