Samuel Hibbert-Ware
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| Born | 21 April 1782 |
| Died | 30 December 1848 (aged 66) |
| Occupation | Geologist |
Samuel Hibbert-Ware FRSE FSA (21 April 1782 – 30 December 1848), born Samuel Hibbert in St Ann's Square Manchester, was an English geologist and antiquarian.
Life
[edit]He was the eldest son of Samuel Hibbert (d.1815), a linen yarn merchant, and his wife Sarah Ware, from Dublin.[1]
Hibbert was granted an MD and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He served as the secretary of the Society of Scottish Antiquarians, a member of the Royal Medical and Wernerian Societies of Edinburgh, as well as a member of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society being elected on 5 March 1895.[2]
His book Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions (1825) is an early skeptical work that gave possible physical and physiological explanations for sightings of ghosts.[3]
He died at Hale Barns, Altrincham in Cheshire on 30 December 1848. He is buried in Ardwick cemetery in Manchester.[4]
Publications
[edit]- A Description of the Shetland Islands: Comprising an Account of their Scenery, Antiquities and Superstitions (1822) Reprinted 1891.
- Illustration of the Customs of a Manor in the North of England During the Fifteenth Century (1822)
- Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions; Or, An Attempt to Trace Such Illusions to Their Physical Causes (1825)
- History of the Extinct Volcanos of the Basin of Neuwied, on the Lower Rhine (1832)
- On the Fresh-Water Limestone of Burdiehouse in the Neighbourhood of Edinburgh (1835)
- Lancashire Memorials of the Rebellion, MDCCXV (1845)
References
[edit]- ^ Sutton, C. W. (2004). "Ware, Samuel Hibbert– (1782–1848)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 25 May 2010. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ { https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/74442#page/32/mode/1up
- ^ "Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions". Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X.
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