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Fire at Buxton Market Hall
Image ref
DCBM200710
Credit
photographer
Dawkins, Sir William Boyd
ImageDate
1885
Location
Market Hall
Town
Buxton
About this image
See also DCBM000107 and DCHP000156. The photographer was Sir William Boyd Dawkins( 1837-1929), English geologist and archaeologist. He was a member (1861-69) of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, curator (1870-90) of the Manchester Museum, and professor of geology (from 1872) at Owens College (now Victoria Univ.), Manchester. Noted for his research on fossil mammals and on the antiquity of man, he wrote Cave Hunting (1874) and Early Man in Britain (1880) and was co-author of The British Pleistocene Mammalia (6 vol., 1866-1912). In 1919 he was knighted.
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