Arkell, William Joscelyn, 1904-1958
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Arkell, William Joscelyn, 1904-1958
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William Joscelyn Arkell was born at Highworth, Wiltshire in June 1904. He gained a first-class degree in Geology at New College, Oxford in 1925.
In 1929 he was appointed a Lecturer at New College and in 1933 he was elected a Senior Research Fellow. In the same year he published the Jurassic System in Great Britain. He was the the authority on Jurassic stratigraphy and its worldwide correlation and Mesozoic palaeontology, especially Mollusca.
During World War II Arkell worked in the Ministry of Transport but suffered severe ill health. In 1947 he was appointed a Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
In 1956 he suffered a stroke and a second stroke resulted in his death on 18 April 1958.
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