Henry Alexander Miers

Sir Henry Alexander Miers, FRS^[1] (25 May 1858 – 10 December 1942) was a British mineralogist and crystallographer.

Professor Sir Henry Alexander Miers Kt FRS
Pencil drawing of Miers by William Rothenstein, 1917
Born	25 May 1858 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died	10 December 1942
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Eton College Trinity College, Oxford
Occupations	Mineralogist Crystallographer

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Oxford. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1896.^[1]

He was Professor of Crystallography at the Victoria University of Manchester 1915–1926 and Vice-Chancellor of the University during the same years.^[2]

Selected publications

• with R. Crosskey: The soil in relation to health. Macmillan. 1893.
• Individuality in the mineral kingdom, an inaugural lecture delivered at the university museum, Oxford, on May 20, 1896, by Henry A. Miers. B.H. Blackwell. 23 February 1896.
• Miers, Sir Henry Alexander (1901). Yukon : a visit to the Yukon gold-fields : letter by Henry Alex Miers. CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series;no. 72898. ISBN 978-0-665-72898-3.
• Mineralogy; an introduction to the scientific study of minerals. Macmillan and Co., limited. 1902.
• The growth of a crystal : being the eighteenth Robert Boyle lecture delivered before the Oxford University Junior Scientific Club, on the 20th of May, 1911. Journal of the Oxford University Junior Scientific Club ;June, 1911. Henry Frowde. 23 February 2024.

References

1. Holland, T. H.; Spencer, L. J. (1943). "Henry Alexander Miers. 1858-1942". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 4 (12): 368. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1943.0009. S2CID 153456234.
2. Charlton, H. B. (1951) Portrait of a University, 1851-1951. Manchester: University Press; pp. 141, 176

External links

• AIM25: University College London: Miers Papers Archived 22 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine at www.aim25.ac.uk
• Works by Henry Alexander Miers at Project Gutenberg

Professional and academic associations
Preceded by Sir Grafton Elliot Smith	President of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 1919–21	Succeeded by Thomas Alfred Coward