John Hulke, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John Hulke

British geologist and surgeon

Date of Birth: 06-Nov-1830

Place of Birth: Deal, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 19-Feb-1895

Profession: geologist, surgeon, paleontologist, military physician, ophthalmologist

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

John Whitaker Hulke FRCS FRS FGS (6 November 1830 – 19 February 1895) was a British surgeon, geologist and fossil collector.
He was the son of a physician in Deal, who became a Huxleyite despite being deeply religious.Hulke became Huxley's colleague at the Royal College of Surgeons.
He was a long-time collector from the Wealden cliffs of the Isle of Wight, and his work on vertebrate palaeontology included studies of Iguanodon and Hypsilophodon from the Wealden (Lower Cretaceous).
He became President of the Geological Society (1882–84); and was awarded Wollaston Medal in 1888.
He was President of the Pathological Society of London in 1883, and President of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1893 until his death.