Henry Alexander Miers

Professor Sir Henry Alexander Miers Kt FRS
Pencil drawing of Miers by William Rothenstein, 1917
Born	(1858-05-25)25 May 1858 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died	10 December 1942(1942-12-10) (aged 84)
Alma mater	Eton College Trinity College, Oxford
Occupations	Mineralogist Crystallographer

Sir Henry Alexander Miers, FRS[1] (25 May 1858 – 10 December 1942) was a British mineralogist and crystallographer.

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Oxford. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1896.[1] He was elected to membership of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society on 30 November 1915 [2] and was President of the Society 1919–21.

He was Professor of Crystallography at the Victoria University of Manchester 1915–1926 and Vice-Chancellor of the University during the same years.[3]

• with R. Crosskey: The soil in relation to health. Macmillan. 1893.
• Individuality in the mineral kingdom, an inaugural lecture delivered at the university museum, Oxford, on May 20, 1896, by Henry A. Miers. B.H. Blackwell. 23 February 1896.
• Miers, Sir Henry Alexander (1901). Yukon : a visit to the Yukon gold-fields : letter by Henry Alex Miers. CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series;no. 72898. ISBN 978-0-665-72898-3. }: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
• Mineralogy; an introduction to the scientific study of minerals. Macmillan and Co., limited. 1902.
• The growth of a crystal : being the eighteenth Robert Boyle lecture delivered before the Oxford University Junior Scientific Club, on the 20th of May, 1911. Journal of the Oxford University Junior Scientific Club; June, 1911. Henry Frowde. 23 February 2024.

• AIM25: University College London: Miers Papers Archived 22 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine at www.aim25.ac.uk
• Works by Henry Alexander Miers at Project Gutenberg

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