George Parkes Wall
1832–1912
Mining engineer, geologist and industrialist. Associate in mining at the Royal School of Mines, 1855. Director of the Geological Survey of Trinidad, circa 1856–60. Worked on the Geological Survey of Jamaica in the 1860s before returning to England to become a manufacturer of steel and steel wire in Sheffield.
Source
Kelly’s directory of Sheffield and Rotherham 1883, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 68 (1912): lxiii–iv, Sarjeant 1980–96.
Bibliography
Sarjeant, William A. S. 1980–96. Geologists and the history of geology: an international bibliography. 10 vols. including supplements. London: Macmillan. Malabar, Fla.: Robert E. Krieger Publishing.
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