Scrope, GEORGE POULETT

Scrope, GEORGE POULETT, geologist, was born in London in 1797, and was educated at Harrow and Cambridge, and on his marriage in 1821 exchanged his own name, Thomson, for that of his wife's family. He made studies of volcanic phenomena at Vesuvius, in central France, and elsewhere, and expounded his views in Considerations on Volcanoes (1824) and Geology of the Extinct Volcanoes of Central France (1827; 2d ed. 1872). As member of parliament for Stroud from 1833 to 1868 he became famous as a writer of pamphlets in the interests of the agricultural labourer. A Fellow of the Royal Society and other learned associations, he died 19th January 1876.