Victor Eyles

Dr Victor Ambrose Eyles FRSE FGS (1895–1978) was a British geologist and science historian. He was the founder of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History in 1936. Joan Eyles, his wife, donated the Eyles Collection, their collection of papers on the history and practice of geology, to the University of Bristol. Life Eyles was born in Bristol on 10 October 1895 the son of Willam Henry Eyles (in 1928 Lord Mayor of Bristol). He attended Fairfield School, then enrolled in Bristol University, but his studies were interrupted by the war. In the First World War he served in the Gas Brigade within the Royal Engineers, and was wounded on active duty in France in 1916. Upon recovery he rejoined in a new regiment: the Royal Flying Corps where he served as an Observer in the Kite Balloon section until 1919. He returned to Bristol and graduated BSc in the summer of 1920.