John Vernon Harrison

John Vernon Harrison FRSE FGS (1892-1972) was a British structural geologist, explorer and cartographer.

His family returned to Scotland in his early childhood, living at a flat at 37 Warrender Park Road[1] in Marchmont in Edinburgh and he here attended George Watson's College.

Despite this apparent appropriate role his inexperience led him to more standard service during the First World War, during which he served as a lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in Mesopotamia.

He remained in this role after the war ended, working mainly in Persia and Iraq, and being responsible for sourcing many of the oil-fields still in production today.

His proposers were John Smith Flett, Edward Battersby Bailey, Murray Macgregor, and William McLintock.