Thomas Oldham married Louisa Matilda Dixon of Liverpool in 1850.
11 Facts About Thomas Oldham
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Thomas Oldham discovered radiating fans shaped impressions in the town of Bray in 1840.
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Thomas Oldham showed this to the English palaeontologist Edward Forbes, who named it Oldhamia after him.
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Thomas Oldham became Curator to the Geological Society of Dublin, and in 1845 succeeded John Phillips, nephew of William Smith, in the Chair of Geology at Trinity College, Dublin.
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Thomas Oldham was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1848.
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Thomas Oldham resigned as the Curator to the Geological Society of Dublin in November 1850 and took a position as the first Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India.
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Thomas Oldham was the first Irish geologists to migrate to the subcontinent.
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Thomas Oldham was followed by his brother Charles, William King Jr.
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Oldham's elder son Richard Dixon Oldham distinguished three types of pressure produced by earthquakes: now known as P, S, and L -waves, based on his observations made after the Great Assam Earthquake of 1897.
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Thomas Oldham started the Paleontologia Indica, a series of memoirs on the fossils of India.
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Thomas Oldham resigned from his position in India in 1876 on the grounds of poor health and retired to Rugby in England.