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John Webb
John has
lived all his life in Grays and trained as a
Civil Engineer. He worked for the Thurrock Urban
District Council during the major development
period after the '39-'45 war and then for the
Basildon Development Corporation, retiring as
Chief Engineer. His interest in history and
archeology was stimulated by the excellent series
of lectures on the subject arranged by Thurrock
Libraries and the WEA in the 1960s and '70s and
by joining the Society. With many other members
of the Society he was involved in the major
archeological excavations at Mucking and then
with the rescue of Coalhouse Fort and now with
the Davy Down project..He is Past president of
the Essex Archaeological and Historical Congress.
John took over as Chairman of the Society when
Aubrey Saunders, who had been Chairman for over
30 years retired to the West country in 1987, and
has also edited the Society's Journal, Panorama,
since 1990. He stood down as chairman of the
society in April 2003. In recognition of his
contributions to the society over many years, he
was unanimously chosen as a patron. |
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Dr George W. Beccaloni ARCS, DIC, FLS
George is an entomologist, evolutionary biologist, taxonomist, museum curator and science historian, who worked at
London’s Natural History Museum as a research entomologist and curator (specialising in cockroaches and butterflies)
for 20 years. He has studied the life and work of Alfred Russel Wallace (the co-discover of evolution by natural selection)
for 18 years and is the founder and Director of the Wallace Correspondence Project. In recognition of his
work in publicising Grays resident, Alfred Russel Wallace, he
was unanimously chosen as a patron in 2022. |
