abstract:Herbert Harold Read FRS, FRSE, FGS, (born Whitstable 17 December 1889, died 29 March 1970)‘READ, Herbert Harold’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 1 March 2009 was a British geologist and Professor of Geology at Imperial College. From 1947-1948 he was president of the Geological Society.