Henry Hubert Hayden

Sir Henry Hubert Hayden CSI CIE (25 July 1869 – 28 August 1923[1]) was a geologist who worked in the Geological Survey of India and a mountaineer.

On 3 January 1895 he joined the Geological Survey of India (GSI).

He studied stratigraphy in various parts of the Himalayas, especially the Spiti area, during the course of his work which included being a geologist in the Tirah Expeditionary Force, 1897–98 and with the Tibet Frontier Commission of 1903 along with Francis Younghusband.

[3] Hayden was one of the founders of the Indian Science Congress in 1912 and served as a President in later years.

[4] Hayden died while on a climbing expedition in Switzerland to Finsteraarhorn.