John Flett (geologist)

Sir John Smith Flett KBE FRSE FRS FGS (26 June 1869 – 26 January 1947) was a Scottish physician and geologist.

Born in Kirkwall, Orkney, the son of James Ferguson Flett, a merchant and baillie, and Mary Ann (née Copland).

[2] Flett worked as a general practitioner for a short while after graduation, but in 1895 turned to geology for a career.

[3] Flett was awarded the Neill Prize (1898–1901) of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1900,[4] on the proposal of James Geikie, Ben Peach, John Horne and Ramsay Traquair.

[2] Flett died in Ashdon, Essex and his headstone in the churchyard of All Saints' Church shows his date of birth as 25 May 1869 (a month earlier than the DOB given in the ODNB).