Sedgwick

Sedgwick, ADAM (1784-1873), geologist, was born in Yorkshire, and bechme a graduate of Cambridge, Fellow of Trinity, and Canon of Norwich. He took a keen interest in geological science, and did not a little to popularise it. In 1818 he became professor of it at Cambridge, and began to collect specimens, which have helped to make the Woodwardian Museum at that university one of the best of its kind in Europe. He discovered some very valuable formtions, and contributed many important papers to the Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society and those of the Geological Society.