Sir Jethro Teall

Birth registered in Q1 1849 in Northleach. His father died shortly after he was conceived and his mother returned to her parents in Northleach for the birth.

1851 is with widowed grandmother Mary Hathaway and his widowed mother with 4 uncles, one aunt and a servant in Northleach.

1861 is age 12, recorded as Hall, living with mother and three aunts in the High Street, Northleach.

1871 is age 22, an undergraduate at St. John's College, Cambridge, living with his mother, a visiting missionary to China, a cook and a servant, in Grosvenor Place, Cheltenham. He helps to found a geological school in his college.

Wins the Sedgwick prize for his researches on lower-level greensand, a type of sandstone, in 1874. Appointed Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge on 8th November 1875. Gains MA in 1876.

Marriage registered in Q2 1879 in Nottingham. Name recorded as Jethro Juetiniao.

1881 is age 32, a lecturer on geology with eight private pupils, living with son, wife and three servants at 9 All Saints' Street, St. Mary's, Nottingham. Name recorded as Jethu.

In 1888 he publishes the book "British Petrography", containing much original research. (See media section. The book is available to read online.)

Is elected to the Royal Society in 1890.

1891 is age 42, a geologist in Her Majesty's Geological Society, living with wife, two children, a cook and a servant at 2 Thurlow Park Road, Streatham, Wandsworth, London.

1901 is age 52, the director of Her Majesty's Geological Survey, living with wife, two sons and two servants at 89 Thurlow Park Road, Streatham, Wandsworth, London.

He won the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society in 1905.

1911 is age 62, the director of His Majesty's Geological Turvey, living with wife and son at 175 Rosendale Road, London.

Knighted in 1916 for work in the Royal Geological Survey. Shortly after he visited Northleach as described in the newspaper article to be found in "Media".

Death on 2nd July, 1924. He has an obituary printed in "Nature", an international scientific journal, and the Cambridge Journal. See Media for death notices and estate valuation at £8,958 and 13 shillings from the Cheltenham Chronicle. Also an exchange of letters.

While working at the Geological Survey Museum in London, he supposedly saved the museum cat from budget cuts (it had a salary for food!) by persuading the museum staff to contribute. He said that otherwise the place should soon be invaded by mice and rats.

Jethro was 'tall and well-built with a head and face which at once arrested attention', remebered as a 'delightful companion'. Teallite, a sulphide mineral of tin and lead (PbSnS2), was named for him after its discovery in Bolivia in 1904.