Obituary — Lieut. Horas Tristram Kennedy, B.A. 335 



In the latter year he joined the Geological Survey of Great Britain 

 and served on it until 1873, when he succeeded Professor Sedgwick 

 as Woodwardian Professor of Geology at Cambridge. At first his 

 survey work lay among the newer rocks of the south-eastern 

 counties, but in 1866 he was transferred to the borders of the Lake 

 District, where he did much important geological work. 



" On going to Cambridge his duties as successor to the eminent 

 Sedgwick were far from easy, but his varied attainments enabled 

 him to discharge them with success. At the outset, in addition to 

 the ordinary duties of his Chair, he devoted himself to three tasks 

 which had connexion with his predecessor — namely, the adoption 

 of the Cambrian system as defined by Sedgwick, the writing of the 

 life of that geologist, and the erection of the Memorial Museum 

 which has been built in his honour. The first of these would have 

 reopened an unfruitful controversy, and Hughes wisely discontinued 

 it. In carrying out the second he secured the services of the late 

 Registrar of the University — Mr. J. "W. Clark — and ' The Life and 

 Letters of Sedgwick ', by Clark and Hughes, appeared in two 

 volumes in 1890. The performance of the third task was long 

 delayed by many disappointments and difficulties, but Hughes had 

 the satisfaction of seeing the completion of the Sedgwick Museum, 

 which was opened by King Edward in 1904. 



" During his tenure of the professorship Hughes did much original 

 work in geology and archaeology. 1 He was a fluent lecturer, but 

 his most successful work as a teacher was due to his great capacity 

 for arousing enthusiasm among his pupils, and many geologists owe 

 their interest in the science to his efforts. He was elected a Fellow 

 of the Royal Society in 1889, and received the Lyell Medal of the 

 Geological Society in 1891, when he acknowledged the value of his 

 intimate association with Sir Charles Lyell, with whom he made 

 many geological tours during his early years. He was a Professorial 

 Fellow of Clare College, and Chevalier of the Order SS. Maurice et 

 Lazarus (Italy). 



"He married, on November 28, 1882, Mary Caroline, daughter of 

 the late Rev. G. P. Weston, Honorary Canon of Carlisle, and had 

 three sons. Mrs. Hughes, who has herself done important geological 

 work, was ever ready to assist her husband in the manifold duties 

 of his professorship [see Mrs. Hughes' Memoir on the Pleistocene 

 Mollusca of Cambridge, Geol. Mag., 1888, p. 193]. 



"As Sedgwick was elected Woodwardian Professor in 1818, he and 

 his successor have between them occupied the Chair for ninety-nine 

 years." 



LIEUT. HORAS TRISTRAM KENNEDY, B.A., F.G.S. 



Bokn 1889. Killed in action, June 6, 1917. 



Lieut. Horas T. Kennedy, F.G.S., who was killed by shell-fire south 



of Ypres on June 6, was a geologist of great promise on the staff of 



the Geological Survey of Ireland, which he joined, after open 



1 [For a list of his papers up to 1906 see the life of Professor Hughes, as an 

 "Eminent Living Geologist", Geol. Mag., 1906, pp. 10-13; the titles of 

 ninety -three separate articles are there recorded.] 



