WILLIAM HOBBS SHRUBSOLE 1837-1927
William Hobbs was born in Faversham and died in Vetnor, Isle of Wight. He married in Islington, London in 1866 Hannah Janet GILLIES who was b 1842 in Wellingboro’, Northamptonshire.
They had 6 children, 4 sons William L, Harry, Walter H & Stanley Smith, and 2 daughters Edith Mary & Kate.
His principal employment was as a grocer ( & we can see from his brother Charles’ details that their partnership was dissolved in 1895), but he was also an amateur geologist whose brothers (Octavius Albert & George William) were also geologists (though George William was a retail pharmacist as well). He studied the London clay, principally it’s stratigraphy and micropalaentology.
He resided for many years at Sheerness and collected fossils from the London Clay of Sheppey. Discovered skull of Argillornis longipennis; skull of Chelone gigas; Diatoms, and Prophaethon shrubsolei.
Some of his books:
The diatoms of the London clay by W. H Shrubsole ( Book )
1 edition published in 1881 in English
The Opal Mines of Hungary by William Hobbs Shrubsole ( Book )
1 edition published in 1905 in English
On a new diatom in the estuary of the Thames by William Hobbs Shrubsole ( Book )
1 edition published in 1891 in English
Geology of Sheppey by William Hobbs Shrubsole ( Book )
1 edition published in 1878 in English
Notes on the geology of Sheppey by William Hobbs Shrubsole ( Book )
in English
Fossils from the London clay of the Isle of Sheppey by W. H Shrubsole ( Book )
1 edition published in 1978 in English
[List of] Popular Science Lectures by William Hobbs Shrubsole ( Book )
1 edition published in 1898 in English
OBITUARY FROM CHELTENHAM CHRONICLE 21 MAY 1927
MR. W.H. SHRUBSOLE, F.G.S.
The death has taken place at Ventnor in his 90th year of Mr. William Hobbs Shrubsole, F.G.S., who for many years was the representative in this country for the Hungarian State Railways. He had a very intimate knowledge of Hungary and its people, and his services as a lecturer upon that subject were frequently in request. He was well known in Cheltenham as the father of the Rev Stanley S. Shrubsole, B.D., for some years minister of Highbury Congregational Church, and now of Sutton (Surrey).
