CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY Irish geolo gist, was born in Dublin in 1822. He was educated at Weymouth and at Trinity college, Dublin, took holy orders, and held various charges in England. In 1861 he returned to Dublin and devoted himself especially to the glacial geology of Ireland. His paper, read before the Geological Society of Ireland in 1866, on the "General Glaciation of Ireland" is a masterly description of the effects of glaciation, and of the evidence in favour of the action of land-ice. Later on he discussed the origin of the elevated shell-bearing gravels near Dublin, and expressed the view that they were accumulated by floating ice when the land had under gone submergence. He died in Dublin Sept. 12, 1903.
The obituary by Prof. G. A. J. Cole in Irish Naturalist, vol. xii. (19(33) contains a list of publications and portrait.