Wheelton Hind


Wheelton Hind was an English surgeon and geologist.

Education and career

Wheelton Hind studied medicine at Guy's Hospital Medical School. He qualified MRCS in 1882. He graduated MB BS Lond in 1883. He was a house surgeon and resident obstetric physician at Guy's Hospital. He received his medical research MD in 1884.
Throughout his medical practice his chief recreation was field work in geology. Following Charles Lapworth's pioneering method of studying index fossils, Hind applied the method to the stratigraphy of Carboniferous rocks in Suffolk.
Wheelton Hind published numerous articles in the Transactions of the North Staffordshire Naturalists' Field Club. His monograph On the Lamellibranch and Gasteropod Fauna found in the Millstone Grit of Scotland was a revision of the stratigraphy of Carboniferous Mollusca and won him the honour of the Keith Medal.
In 1914 he rapidly recruited men to form a battery of Garrison Artillery, and led them to the Western Front. The battery fought in some important engagements. He was soon transferred as Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel RAMC and returned to England at the end of WWI.

Family

Wheelton Hind was the third son of Reverend William Marsden Hind, rector of Hornington, Suffolk, and author of The Flora of Suffolk. Wheelton Hind married Wilhelmina Maria Manfield in 1884.

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