Charlotte, Lady Murchison was a British geologist born in Hampshire, England. She was married to the nineteenth-century geologist Roderick Impey Murchison.
Charlotte Murchison in 1860
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish geologist who served as director-general of the British Geological Survey from 1855 until his death in 1871. He is noted for investigating and describing the Silurian, Devonian and Permian systems.
Sir Roderick Murchison
Vanity Fair print of Sir Roderick Murchison
Roderick Impey Murchison posing with cane
Murchison photographed by Camille Silvy in 1860