was awarded the Bigsby Medal of the Geological Society of London for a paper published in 1913 on the use of garnet as a geological barometer, as a marker of the pressures to which rocks had been subjected. He was a founder member of the Mining and Geological Institute of India, and its president in 1922. After several periods as acting director, he was director of the Geological Survey of India from 1932 to 1935. He was a Trustee of the Indian Museum from 1930 to 1935, president of the 20th session of the Indian Science Congress in 1933, became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1934, and he was knighted by the Government of India in 1935. He was president of the Asiatic Society of Bengal from 1933 to 1936, and the first elected president of the National Institute of Sciences of India in 1935. After retiring as director of the Geological Survey of India in 1935, he continued to live and work mainly in India until 1939, also visiting Kenya and South Africa. He continued to contribute to learned societies, and also worked as a geological consultant for private businesses. He was president of the Bristol Naturalists' Society in 1945, and vice-president of the Geological Society of London from 1945 to 1947. Private life Fermor married Muriel Eileen (or Aeyleen) Ambler, ten years his junior, in 1909. Her grandfather was Warrant Officer (William) James Ambler on HMS Bellerophon when Napoléon I surrendered to it. Their son, Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915–2011), was raised and educated in England and did not visit his father in India; he later became well known for his travel writing. After he separated from his first wife, he married Frances Mary Case in 1933. He died in Horsell near Woking in Surrey, survived by his second wife, and his son and daughter from his first marriage. References External links Obituary of Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor from the Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Vol.23 (Sept. 1954), p. 285–286. 1880 births 1954 deaths 20th-century British geologists Fellows of the Royal Society Knights Bachelor Officers of the Order of the British Empire People educated at Wilson's School, Wallington Presidents of The Asiatic Society People from Peckham