Hull Geological Society

Obituary

Stuart Jones FGS 1946-2025,

Stuart joined the Society in 2000. He was our President 3 times, Vice-President twice and our Librarian for 22 years. Stuart was an active member in our research projects such as the Flamborough Quaternary Research Group and a key member in our conservation team at Rifle Butts SSSI. He was awarded the Felix Whitham Memorial Medal in 2013. Stuart has been the organiser of the Rock and Fossil Roadshow at Hornsea Museum since 2007 and more recently Roadshows at Flamborough Village Hall. Stuart has led numerous field meetings for the Society and always displayed fossils at conferences and joint meetings with the Yorkshire Geological Society and Geologists’ Association. Stuart passed away on 8th February after a short illness.

Stuart Jones' publications -

Jones S 2008. The coastal exposures of Boulder Clay and erratics in Holderness. Humberside Geologist 14, 113-121 and Humbeside Geologist Online.

Jones S 2008. What the Ice Age did to Holderness. 9 pp. Privately published and republished in 2026 on Hull Geological Society web pages.

Jones S 2011. Erratics - sentinals of the past. 8 pp. Privately published and republished in 2026 on Hull Geological Society web pages.

Jones S 2017. The building bricks of Hornsea in the Ron Harrison Collection. 21 pp. Privately published and republished in 2026 on Hull Geological Society web pages.

Haughey D, M Horne and S Jones 2020. The Hornsea Tesco Boulder. Humberside Geologist Online and Humberside Geologist 16, 57-59 .

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