13 Facts About Archibald Geikie

The elder brother of James Archibald Geikie, he was educated at Edinburgh High School and University of Edinburgh.

In 1855 Archibald Geikie was appointed an assistant with the British Geological Survey.

Archibald Geikie completed some early geological mapping with Murchison on complicated regions of schists in the Scottish Highlands; and they jointly published a new geological map of Scotland in 1862.

Archibald Geikie's book, based on extensive personal knowledge of the country, was an able contribution to the doctrines of the Edinburgh school, of which he himself soon began to rank as one of the leaders.

Archibald Geikie continued to hold these two appointments until 1881.

Archibald Geikie wrote a biography of Edward Forbes, and biographies of his predecessors Sir Roderick Impey Murchison and Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay.

Archibald Geikie was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1865.

Archibald Geikie was Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society from 1890 to 1894, Joint Secretary from 1903 to 1908 and elected president in 1909 and awarded their Royal Medal in 1896.

Archibald Geikie was President of the Geological Society of London in 1891 and 1892, and again in 1906 and 1907.

Archibald Geikie was President of the British Association in 1892.

Archibald Geikie received a knighthood in 1891, the Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath in 1907 and the Order of Merit in 1914.

Archibald Geikie died at his home, "Shepherd's Down" in Haslemere, Surrey and is buried there in the village churchyard.

In 1871, Archibald Geikie married Alice Gabrielle Anne Marie Pignatel, daughter of Eugene Pignatel of Lyons.