George Julius Poulett Scrope
1797–1876
Geologist and political economist. Liberal MP for Stroud, Gloucestershire, 1833–67. Studied the volcanic districts of Italy, Sicily, France, and Germany. FRS 1826.
Sources
DSB
ODNB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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