Samuel Hibbert-Ware

Samuel Hibbert-Ware FRSE FSA (21 April 1782 – 30 December 1848), born Samuel Hibbert in St Ann's Square Manchester, was an English geologist and antiquarian.

Samuel Hibbert-Ware FRSE FSA
Born	21 April 1782 Manchester
Died	30 December 1848 (1848-12-31) (aged 66) Altrincham
Occupation	Geologist

Life

He was the eldest son of Samuel Hibbert (d.1815), a linen yarn merchant, and his wife Sarah Ware, from Dublin.^[1]

Hibbert was granted an MD and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He served as the secretary of the Society of Scottish Antiquarians, a member of the Royal Medical and Wernerian Societies of Edinburgh, as well as a member of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society being elected on 5 March 1895.^[2]

His book Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions (1825) is an early skeptical work that gave possible physical and physiological explanations for sightings of ghosts.^[3]

He died at Hale Barns, Altrincham in Cheshire on 30 December 1848. He is buried in Ardwick cemetery in Manchester.^[4]

Publications

• A Description of the Shetland Islands: Comprising an Account of their Scenery, Antiquities and Superstitions (1822) Reprinted 1891.
• Illustration of the Customs of a Manor in the North of England During the Fifteenth Century (1822)
• Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions; Or, An Attempt to Trace Such Illusions to Their Physical Causes (1825)
• History of the Extinct Volcanos of the Basin of Neuwied, on the Lower Rhine (1832)
• On the Fresh-Water Limestone of Burdiehouse in the Neighbourhood of Edinburgh (1835)
• Lancashire Memorials of the Rebellion, MDCCXV (1845)