BINNEY

Edward William . b. Morton, Notts. 1812; solicitor at Manchester 1836; conducted the case for the Claimant in the great Chadwick law suit Nov. 1847; a paraffin oil manufacturer in Scotland; chief founder and sec. of Manchester geological society Oct. 1838, pres. 1857–59 and 1865–67, contributed 33 papers to the Transactions 1839–72; member of Manchester literary and philosophical society Jan. 1842, president to death; F.G.S. 1853, F.R.S. 5 June 1856; po e ed the most exact knowledge of coal fields of Lancashire and Cheshire and of the geology of the whole district. d. Cheetham hill, Manchester 19 Dec. 1881. Trans. of Geol. Soc. of Manchester xvi , 256–59 (1882); Proc. of Manchester Lit. and Philos. Soc. xxi , 142–48 (1882).