Adam Sedgwick FRS (28 September 1854 – 27 February 1913) was a British zoologist and Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, Imperial College, London, and a great nephew of the renowned geologist Adam Sedgwick.
Adam Sedgwick | |
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| Born | 28 September 1854 |
| Died | 27 February 1913 (aged 58) |
| Nationality | English |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Zoology |
| Institutions | Cambridge University, Imperial College of London |
Sedgwick was born in Norwich, Norfolk in 1854, the son of Rev Richard Sedgwick, vicar of Dent, Yorkshire and his wife Mary Jane, daughter of John Woodhouse of Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire. He was the great-nephew of Rev. Adam Sedgwick (FRS 1821). He married Laura, daughter of Captain Robinson of Armagh.[1]
He was educated at Giggleswick School; Marlborough College; King's College London; and later at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was awarded his BA in 1878, and awarded MA in 1881. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1880); tutor, Trinity College (1897–1907); lecturer in animal morphology, Cambridge University (1883–1890); reader in animal morphology (1890–1907); professor of zoology and comparative anatomy (1907–1909); professor of zoology, Imperial College, London (1909–1913); chairman, Geological Survey of Great Britain. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1886.[1]
Sedgwick contributed articles to the 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. He also wrote “A Student's Textbook of Zoology” in three volumes, published in 1898, 1905[2] and 1909.[3] He was a member of the Athenaeum Club.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b "Royal Society: Sedgwick; Adam (1854 - 1913)". Retrieved 21 April 2011.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Review of A Student's Textbook of Zoology, Vol. ii, by Adam Sedgwick". The Oxford Magazine. 23. The Proprietors: 401. 14 June 1905.
- ^ Sedgwick, Adam (1898). A Student's Text-book of Zoology. London: Swan Schneider and Co.
- ^ "SEDGWICK, Adam". Who's Who. 59: 1578. 1907.
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