| Description | Papers of Gerald ANDREW, [1920s]-1980, comprising:
Photographs, mostly groups, of Andrew and others, of students at the Egyptian University of Cairo, c.1927-1937; and at geologists' meetings [following his appointment as Government Surveyor, Sudan] at Dodoma, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya, c.1939-1943;
Mss notes whilst a geology student at Victoria University of Manchester, 1917; mss notes on the geology of Ireland, [1920s]; microscope slides of rock sections with index, possibly associated with Andrew's teaching at the University of Manchester or University of Cairo, [1920s-1930s]; copies of offprints authored by Andrew, 1925-1930. |
| Administrative History | Gerald Andrew was born 13 November 1897. His grandfather John Andrew was a journalist who worked for the Ashton Reporter. He would found the Cotton Factory Times and the Yorkshire Factory Times which were published in the same offices as the Ashton Reporter in Market Street, Ashton-under-Lyne.
Gerald Andrew obtained his BSc (Hons) in Geology, Victoria University of Manchester, then became Assistant lecturer in Geology there between [c.1924-1925]. He was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society on 3 December 1924.
Andrew became a lecturer in the Department of Geology, Egyptian University of Cairo, Egypt, c.1927-1939 then/also Government Geologist, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan c.1937/1938, later Director of Geological Survey of Sudan, 1939-1955, afterwards moving to Quetta, Baluchistan, West Pakistan, c.1955.
In 1961 Andrew moved back to the UK to become chairman of the Reporter Group of Newspapers, the papers established by his grandfather. He was reported as deceased to the Society's Council in October 1986. |
| Provenance | The material, along with that of his son John Roger Andrew, was given to the Society through a Mrs Turpin (who was possibly Gerald or John's daughter) through Ted Nield, editor of Geoscientist and the Society's PR. It was only accessioned in 2005, in the final week before the then archivist's departure, with no date of donation recorded and no paperwork. |