Tannatt William Edgeworth (Edgeworth) David
1858–1934
Geologist. BA, Oxford, 1881. Assistant geological surveyor, New South Wales, Australia, 1882. Professor of geology, Sydney, 1891. Leader of an expedition to Funafuti atoll in the Ellice Islands (now Tuvalu) to bore a deep section, 1897–8. Joined Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition, 1907–9. Knighted, 1920.
Source
Aust. dict. biog.
Bibliography
Aust. dict. biog.: Australian dictionary of biography. Edited by Douglas Pike et al. 14 vols. [Melbourne]: Melbourne University Press. London and New York: Cambridge University Press. 1966–96.
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