Martin Simpson (geologist)

This article is about the 19th century geologist. For the 20th/21st century paleontologist, see Martin I. Simpson.

Martin Simpson (20 November 1800 – 20 December 1892) was a British geologist working in the Whitby area of North Yorkshire, England.^[1]

His major publications were:

• A Monograph of the Ammonites of the Yorkshire Lias, 1843
• The Fossils of the Yorkshire Lias, 1855
• A Guide to the Geology of the Yorkshire Coast, 1856