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Nov 06, 1830 Deal, England, United Kingdom Died on 19 Feb 1895 (aged 64)
British geologist and surgeon
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About John Hulke
- 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.
