Herbert Harold Read FRS,[1] FRSE, FGS, (17 December 1889, in Whitstable – 29 March 1970)[2][3] was a British geologist and Professor of Geology at Imperial College.
[2] He was born at Whitstable in Kent on 17 December 1889 the son of Herbert Read, a dairy farmer, and his wife, Caroline Mary Kearn.
In the First World War he served in the Royal Fusiliers seeing active service on the Somme and at Gallipoli.
He was invalided out of service in 1917 and returned to HM Geological Survey (Scottish section), where he had begun briefly in 1914.
[5] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1939[2] and won its Royal Medal in 1963 for "outstanding contributions to the understanding of the processes of rock metamorphism and the origins of granite".