Sir Kingsley Charles Dunham This is Me

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1. 1. geolsoc.org.uk

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   KINGSLEY CHARLES DUNHAM 1910 - 2001
   
   Kingsley Dunham was born on 2 January 1910 in Dorset. Three years later his family moved to Brancepeth near Durham City. Kingsley entered Durham University as a scholar of Hatfield College in 1927 to read chemistry but changed to geology under the influence of the first-year teaching of Arthur Holmes.
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   In 1936 Kingsley married Margaret Young, a fellow undergraduate at Durham.
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   Kingsley was appointed Geologist with the Geological Survey of Great Britain in 1935. His first survey assignment was to map Old Red Sandstone for the Monmouth sheet.
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   In 1950 Kingsley was offered and accepted the Chair of Geology at Durham University in succession to Lawrence Wager.
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   Kingsley and Margaret's generous hospitality to students and colleagues was renowned. He became widely consulted on mineral deposits by Pennine mining companies and also on a worldwide basis.
   
   In 1959 Kingsley was awarded a major DSIR grant to drill into the postulated Weardale granite, and thus to investigate the source of the zoned mineralization of the Alston Block. The granite was proved beneath a Lower Carboniferous succession, but to general surprise it was found to be Lower Devonian in age - pre-dating the mineralization. This unexpected result led to much discussion of the origin of the mineralization and the tectonic influence of granites after emplacement, which still continues today.
   
   Kingsley returned to the Geological Survey as Director in 1967. This was a period of reorganisation and expansion. His first task was to weld together the Geological Survey, the Museum of Practical Geology and the recently incorporated Overseas Geological Surveys into the new Institute of Geological Sciences. Field mapping at home and abroad remained the expanded central task, but geochemistry, geophysics, engineering geology and continental shelf investigations were developed or greatly extended. A new headquarters site was found for the Institute at Keyworth, near Nottingham, but he had retired in 1975 before he could move there from London. Kingsley was knighted in 1972.
   
   Kingsley was successively awarded the Bigsby, Murchison and Wollaston medals of the Society, and was President (1966-68). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1955, was a Royal Medallist (1970), and became Foreign Secretary and Vice-President (1971-76). He was instrumental in setting up a Royal Society scheme for rapid awards of grants for immediate scientific visits to volcanic eruptions and earthquake sites. He was President of the IUGS (1969-72) playing a leading role in setting up the IGCP, becoming its first Chairman (1973-76). A full listing of his many offices and honours can be found in Who's Who (2000 ed.).
   
   Retirement freed Kingsley to return to Durham and to active geological research. In 1985 he published The Geology of the Northern Pennine Orefield Vol.

2. 2. Past Officers

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   Sir Kingsley Charles Dunham

3. 3. www.geolsoc.org.uk

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   A celebration in Durham and other places nearby of the geology of the North Pennines, and especially of the work of Kingsley Dunham (Local Heroes event).
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   May 26-27 Minerals weekend held in St. Johns Chapel Town Hall, in association with the Friends of Killhope Lead Mining Museum and the British Geological Survey, including "open house" displays, and a talk by Prof. Martin Bott (Durham University) on Sir Kingsley Dunham and the North Pennines.
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   Join Brian Young on a journey around the Weardale village of Rookhope, celebrating the minerals of the North Pennines and the work of Sir Kingsley Dunham.