236 Obituary—C. E. Fox-Strangways. 
was appointed, July 20, 1867, an Assistant Geologist on the Geo- 
logical Survey, under Murchison as Director-General and Ramsay as 
Director. He commenced field-work on the western borders of York- 
shire near Todmorden, and was occupied for a time in surveying 
portions of the neighbourhood of Ingleton. Thence he worked east- 
wards over part of the great Yorkshire coal-field and in the country 
around Harrogate, across the Vale of York to the Jurassic and 
Cretaceous rocks of the East Yorkshire moors and wolds, residing for 
some years at Scarborough. Apart from the memoirs relating to these 
areas, which he prepared in explanation of the geological survey 
maps, Mr. Strangways wrote an elaborate general memoir on the 
Jurassic Rocks of Yorkshire. 
In 1889 he was transferred to the Midland counties, and took 
up residence at Leicester until the close of his official career in 
1904. In 1901 he had been promoted to be District Geologist 
when the Geological Survey was reorganized under the Director- 
ship of Dr. J. J. H. Teall; but his retirement at the age of 
60 was rendered desirable by weakness of heart, which at that 
time began to impede his wonted activity in the field. While 
at Leicester Mr. Strangways surveyed in detail the Leicestershire 
eoal-field and prepared an important memoir on the subject; 
but his field-work extended over a much larger area, as indicated 
in the appended list of official publications. He also did a great 
deal to stir up local interest in geology at Leicester, in further- 
ance of which he planned and conducted numerous field-excursions 
in the district, and in 1903 and 1904 to Scarborough and Whitby, 
reports of which were printed in the Transactions of the Leicester 
Literary and Philosophical Society. 
Methodical and painstaking in all his work, his accuracy and the 
care he took in mastering the literature on all subjects he dealt with, 
kept him free from the domain of controversy. It is thus interesting 
to mention that Professor P. F. Kendall, in his important paper on 
‘A System of Glacier-Lakes in the Cleveland Hills’ (1902), refers to 
‘(a great lake in the Vale of Pickering, postulated upon very in- 
conclusive grounds by Phillips and other writers, but demonstrated in 
a very clear and convincing manner by Mr. C. Fox-Strangways’’.’ 
Strangways married in 1868 Annie Maria, daughter of the late 
George Flory of Ipswich, and had no issue. In 1873 he was elected 
a Fellow of the Geological Society, and served as member of Council 
during the years 1905-8. 
He was fond of travel and had journeyed to South Africa, Canada, 
and the United States, and in almost every country in Europe. 
Spitzbergen and Iceland were visited in 1899, with his nephew 
Mr. A. W. Searley, who took a series of instructive photographs, 
some of which were published in illustration of a paper printed by 
Mr. Strangways in 1900 
His chief publications were the numerous memoirs dealing with the 
geology of the districts he had surveyed; and of two of these, the 
1 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. lviii, p. 473. | 
2 We are indebted to Mr. Searley for some particulars relating to the life of his 
uncle. 
