Royal Geological Society of Cornwall Royal Geological Society of Cornwall The Royal Geological Society of Cornwall is a geological society based in Penzance, Cornwall in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1814 to promote the study of the geology of Cornwall, and is the second oldest geological society in the world, after the Geological Society of London which was founded in 1807. The first President of the society was Davies Gilbert, the first Secretary John Ayrton Paris, and other notable members include Humphry Davy (some of whose papers are held by the Society), and William Gregor, who discovered titanium. The society's first premises was
Thomas Graves (1802–1856) died in Malta on 28 August 1856, from a wound inflicted by Maltese boatman Giuseppe Meli. Meli was later tried for Graves's murder. Thomas Graves R.N. was a Member of the Belfast Natural History Society and an Associate Royal Geographical Society. Thomas Graves (1802–1856) Thomas Graves (1802 – 28 August 1856) was an officer of the Royal Navy and naturalist who worked extensively in the Mediterranean. Thomas Graves was born in Belfast in 1802 and entered the Navy in 1816. In 1827 he was promoted to lieutenant in HMS "Adventure", under the command of Philip Parker King and surveying on