Adam Sedgwick
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Adam Sedgwick FRS was a British geologist and Anglican priest, one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Cambrian and Devonian period of the geological timescale. Based on work which he d
Portrait of Adam Sedgwick, c. 1863, by Ernest Edwards
Adam Sedgwick
Sedgwick in 1867
Statue of Sedgwick by Edward Onslow Ford in the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Cambridge
William Buckland
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William Buckland DD, FRS was an English theologian, geologist and palaeontologist.
Buckland in 1833
Bust of Buckland in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History
William Conybeare drew this cartoon of Buckland poking his head into a prehistoric hyaena den in 1822 to celebrate Buckland's ground breaking analysis of the fossils found in Kirkdale Cave.
Buckland family silhouette