Rev William Samuel Symonds (1818 - 1887)

Portrait

Picture courtesy of the Woolhope Club

Residence

Societies

• Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club
• Malvern Naturalists' Field Club
• Cotteswold Field Club
• Geological Society
• Dudley and Midland Geological and Scientific Society

Associates

• Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton
• Mr Edwin Lees

Additional links

• The Symonds family tree.
  
  
  
• He has a brief Wikipedia entry.
  
  

Timeline

1818 December 13: Birth	¹1818 December 23: Hereford Journal - "BIRTHS. - Last week the Lady of W. Symonds, Esq. jun. of this city, of a son and heir."
1840 September 29: Marriage	¹1840 October 5: Aris's Birmingham Gazette -  "MARRIED - On Tuesday last, at Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, by the Rev. Matthew Lunn, Vicar of Kempsey, William Samuel Symonds, Esq. of Elsdon Hall, Herefordshire, and Christ College, Cambridge, to Catherine Hyacinth, eldest daughter of Samuel Kent, Esq. of the Hill House, Upton-upon-Severn."
1845: Rector of Pendock	¹1845 February 6: Worcester Journal -  "PREFERMENTS. The Rev. N. S. Symonds,[sic] B.A., of Christ's College, Cambridge, has been instituted by the Lord Bishop of this diocese to the Rectory of Pendock, in this county, vacant by the decease of the Rev. R. Davis, D.D., on the presentation of the Rev. John Parkinson Sill and Miles Manning Beale Cooper, Esq., the patrons." His mother was Lord of the Manor of Pendock.
1855: Publication	"Old stones: Notes on lectures on the plutonic, Silurian and Devonian rocks in the neighbourhood of Malvern." Malvern.
1857: Publication	"Stones of the valley." London.
1861: Publication	"Old bones; or notes for young naturalists." London
1867: Publication	Rev, Symonds made a substantial contribution to Rev. W. H. Purchas' "Flora of Herefordshire" , Hereford. [Google Books]
1881: Publication	"Malvern Chase: An episode of the Wars of the Roses and the Battle of Tewkesbury." Tewkesbury
1883: Publication	"Hanley Castle: An episode of the Civil Wars and the battle of Worcester." Tewkesbury
1884: Publication	New edition - "Old stones: A series of geological notes on the plutonic, volcanic, Pre-Cambrian, Silurian, and Devonian rocks in the neighbourhood of Malvern, with a chapter on Drifts." London.
1887 September 15: Death	Died at Cheltenham, buried at Pendock. The attached document contains his Obituary from the Geological Magazine and the Gloucester Journal.

¹ Transcription reproduced with kind permission of The British Newspaper Archive