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Robert Alfred Cloyne Godwin-Austen

1808 - 1884

Born

19 March 1808

Shalford House, Guildford, Surrey, England

Died

25 November 1884

Shalford House, Guildford, Surrey

Nationality
British
Gender
Male
Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
07/06/1849
Fields of Interest
Geology
Relationships
Son of Sir Henry Edmund Austen and his wife Anne Amelia, daughter of Robert Spearman Bate of the HEIC; married (1833) Maria Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sir Henry Thomas Godwin; took the name Godwin on the death of his father-in-law; father of Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen (FRS 1880)