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George Fairholme (1789–1846) was a land owner, banker, traveler, naturalist and scriptural geologist, born in Lugate, Midlothian, Scotland, January 15, 1789.〔Sir John Bernard Burke, ''Burke's Landed Gentry'' (1965-72), III:315-16.〕 ==Biography== His father, William Fairholme (mother Elizabeth) made his living from banking and was a serious art collector. Nothing is known of George's childhood years and there is no record of his attending any university. But he was probably tutored at home and self-taught in keeping with his family’s wealthy financial situation. In 1800 an uncle bequeathed to him the Greenknowe estate (5000 plus acres) near Gordon, Berwickshire.〔George Fairholme, ''Notes on the Family of Greenknowe and on the History of the estate from 1470 to the present time'' (1838), unnumbered page of the preface to this unpublished manuscript in the possession of Mrs. Waveney Jenkins of the Isle of Man.〕 On November 15, 1818, He married Caroline Forbes who was the eldest daughter of the eighteenth Lord Forbes and granddaughter of the sixth Duke of Atholl.〔George and Elizabeth Fairholme's contract of marriage.〕 They lived in Perth; Greenknowe; Berne, Switzerland; Brussels; Ramsgate, Kent; and many other locations in Europe.〔Susanna Evans, ''Historic Brisbane and Its Early Artists'' (1982), 24.〕 They had five children, William, James, George, Charles and a daughter. Being a gentleman of wealth, he did more widespread travel throughout Europe and Great Britain examining geology directly than such contemporary geologists as Smith, Hutton and Cuvier. Fairholme, as were most scriptural geologists, was well aware of geology. He penned his first manuscript (1833) in reaction to Lyell's ''Principles of Geology''. He believed Lyell and Hutton were mistaken to have diverged from Biblical truths. He stated that explanations of the Bible by theologians badly informed of geology and in compliance to the dictates of non-Biblical philosophy encouraged disbelief. In his second book, Fairholm was saddened to report the otherwise traditional William Buckland's divergence to the new geology. He was well read in both foreign and British publications, and he published in reputable scientific journals. Arguments presented by scriptural geolgists against the new geology ranged fom the courteous ruminations of Fairholme and Granville Penn to the splutterings of Henry Cole.〔O'Connor, Reassessment of Scriptural Geologists, 2007〕〔M. Millhauser, The Scriptural Geologists, Osiris, 1954〕 George died on November 1846 in Royal Leamington Spa, willing homes, paintings and nearly 3000 pounds to each child.〔Death Notices, ''Leamington Spa Courier'', Vol. XIX, No. 963 (21 Nov. 1846), 3〕〔Gentlemen's Magazine, N.S. Vol. XXVII (1847), 108.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Fairholme」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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