Vol XL] 
[Part II. 
PROCEEDINGS 
OP THE 
YORKSHIRE 
GEOLOGICAL AND POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY. 
Edited by JAMES W. DAVIS, F.S.A., F.G.S., &c. 
1889. 
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF EMINENT YORKSHIRE GEOLOGISTS. 
NO. IV. HUGH EDWIN STRICKLAND, F.R.S., ETC. BY JAMES W. DAVIS. 
Hugh Edwin Strickland was the second son of Henry Eustasius 
Strickland, a younger son of the late Sir George Strickland, Bart. , of 
Boynton, and Mary, the eldest daughter of Edmund Cartwriglit, D.D., 
F.R.S. He was born on the 2nd March, 1811, at Reighton, in the 
East Riding of Yorkshire, a small village situate between Bridlington 
and Scarborough, looking down upon the beautiful bay of Filey. 
His father occupied a farm of considerable extent in the vicinity. 
The locality was retired, and the bold features of the neighbouring 
cliffs of Speeton and Filey could not fail to impress the mind of even 
a child, and there can be little doubt that fre(_[uent rambles on this 
interesting coast, and the fossils which he would pick up from the 
Speeton cliffs or the chalk escarpment, formed a strong basis towards 
his subsequent inclination to the study of geology, Strickland was 
in the habit, even when a boy, of writing down his impressions in the 
form of a journal. In this diary he records that his earliest recol- 
lections commenced when he was staying at Hildenley, near Malton, 
with two of his father's sisters, whilst his father, mother, brother, 
and sister, were on a visit to the south. This was in the end of 1814. 
I remember the party returning and taking me home to Reighton. 
I also remember my fourth birthday which came soon after. About 
this time my above-mentioned aunts, whose names were Julia and 
