BONNEY, THOMAS GEORGE English geologist, son of the master of Rugeley grammar school, was educated at Uppingham school and St. John's college, Cambridge, and held various academic posts and ecclesiastical preferments. He became secretary and afterwards president of the Geological Society (1884-86), secretary of the British Association (I881-85), president of the Mineralogical Society and of the Alpine Club. In addition to many papers published in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society and Geological Magazine, he wrote several works on geology.
See Geological Magazine for Sept. 1901 (with bibliography).