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CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903) , Irish geologist, was born in Dublin in 1822. He was educated at Weymouth and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1846; and two years later he entered holy orders. For a year he was curate of All Saints, Northampton ; from 1849 to 1857 he was rector of Shangton in Leicestershire; and then for four years he was curate of Waltham
paper , read before the Geological Society of Ireland in 1866, on the " General Glaciation of Ireland " is a masterly description of the effects of glaciation, and of the evidence in favour of the action of land-ice. Later on he discussed the 'origin of J the elevated shell-bearing gravels near Dublin, and expressed the view that they were accumulated by floating ice when the land had undergone submergence. He was for a time treasurer of the Royal Irish Academy
The obituary by Prof. G. A. J. Cole in Irish Naturalist, vol. xii. (1903) pp. 301-306, contains a list
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