Ansted

Ansted, DAVID THOMAS, geologist, born in London, February 5, 1814. After gaining a fellowship at Jesus College, Cambridge, he devoted himself to geology under Sedgwick, in 1840 was appointed to the chair of Geology in King's College, London, and was elected F.R.S. In 1845 he became attached to the Indian military school at Addiscombe, and the college for civil engineers at Putney. From this time until his death, through a carriage accident near Woodbridge, in Suffolk, May 13, 1880, he devoted his studies to the economic applications of geology, and was much consulted in great mining and engineering operations. His works on his chosen subject were numerous and popular.