Henry Witham FRSE Esq FGS
(1779-1844)

Esquire, benefactor, Fellow of the Geological Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Wernerian Society of Edinburgh, geologist, and founder member of The Royal Geological Society

Died aged c. 65

Henry Thomas Maire Witham FRSE FGS (1779–1844) was a British landowner remembered as an amateur palaeontologist and mineralogist. He was an early researcher into the internal structure of fossil plants.

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Barnard Castle, United Kingdom

This building was erected by public subscription as a testimonial to H. T. M. Witham Esq. of Lartington Hall after his death in 1844. It housed medical and educational facilities which Mr. Witham as a public benefactor had worked to provide for the town and district. He was an eminent geologist and was a founder member of The Royal Geological Society.

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