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Authorised form of nameSedgwick; Adam (1785 - 1873)
Dates1785 - 1873
NationalityBritish
Place of birthDent, Yorkshire, England
Date of birth22 March 1785
Place of deathCambridge
Date of death27 January 1873
Dates and placesBurial:
In the chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge
Research fieldGeology
ActivityEducation:
Trinity College, Cambridge. BA (1808); MA
Career:
Took Holy Orders (1818); Woodwardian Professor of Geology, Cambridge University (1818 - his death)
Memberships:
Athenaeum (1824); FGS
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election01/02/1821
Royal Society activityMedals and prizes:
Copley Medal 1863
RelationshipsSon of a parson; great-uncle of Adam Sedgwick (FRS 1886)
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
AssocMaterial:
NCUACS
References:
John Hedley Brooke, review of Colin A Russell, Lancastrian Chemist: the Early Years of Sir Edward Frankland in NR 1990 vol 44 pp 135-136
Brian Bowers and Keith Bowers, 'Michael Faraday's Geological Notes on the Isle of Wight' in NR 1996 vol 50 pp 65-74
Sydney Ross, 'John Dalton's Lakeland Excursions' in NR 1999 vol 53 pp 79-94
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/64179295
Royal Society codeNA3549
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
DM/1/31Letter from Adam Sedgwick, Trinity College, Cambridge23 March 1831
MS/710/101Letter from Adam Sedgwick, Trinity College, to William Jory Henwood26 October 1831 [and 2 August 1831]
MS/710/103Letter from Adam Sedgwick, Parsonage, Dent, near Kendal, to Mrs Anna Maria Fox16 February 1859
MS/682/31Letter from Adam Sedgwick, Trinity College, to James Sowerby, 2 Mead Place, Lambeth5 March 1822
MC/6/50Letter from W Wakefield, Kendal, to Reverend A [Adam] Sedgwick13 December 1859
MC/6/51Letter from A [Adam] Sedgwick, Cambridge, to the Secretary of the Royal Society17 December 1859
MS/710/102Letter from Adam Sedgwick, Norwich, to Robert Were Fox, Falmouth 16 February 1846
RR/1/46Referee's report by Adam Sedgwick, on a paper 'Observations on the parallel roads of Glen Roy, and other parts of Lochaber in Scotland, with an attempt to prove that they are of marine origin' by Charles Robert Darwin26 March 1839
MS/928/6/1/3Letter from Adam Sedgwick, Cambridge, to 'My dear Sir' [Christopher Erle?]24 July 1860
EC/1820/17Sedgwick, Adam: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MC/3/250Letter from Robert Stevens, 4 Queens Place, Kennington, to Dr. [Peter Mark] Roget, [Secretary of the Royal Society]4 December 1842
MC/3Volume 3 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1839-1843
MC/6Volume 6 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1859-1863
MC/8/22Letter from A [Adam] Sedgwick, Trinity College Cambridge, to the Royal Society5 March 1867
MS/257/4/193Letter from Adam Sedgwick, Cambridge to Edward Sabine26 June 1869
MC/9/510Letter from Robert Westall, 309 Essex Road, Islington, to the Secretary of the Royal Society6 March 1873
MC/9Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1870-June 1873
RR/2/224Referee's report by Adam Sedgwick, on a paper 'On the arrangement of the foliation and cleavage of the rocks of the north of Scotland' by Daniel Sharpe4 March 1852
MC/8Volume 8 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1867-1869
MS/257/4/192Letter from Adam Sedgwick, Cambridge to Edward Sabine13 June 1869
HS/15/451Letter, from Adam Sedgwick to Sir John Herschel, dated at Cambridge2 June 1862
HS/15/428Letter, from Sir John Herschel to Adam Sedgwick, dated at Collingwood10 December 1845
HS/15/433Letter, from Adam Sedgwick to Sir John Herschel, dated at Trinity College, Cambridge2 January 1848
HS/15/452Letter, from Adam Sedgwick to Sir John Herschel, dated at Cambridge23 July 1862
HS/15/456Letter, from Adam Sedgwick to Sir John Herschel, dated at Kendal16 March 1868
HS/15/430Letter, from Sir John Herschel to Adam Sedgwick, dated at Collingwood2 July 1847
HS/15/431Letter, from Sir John Herschel to Adam Sedgwick, dated at Collingwood7 December 1847
HS/15/442Letter, from Sir John Herschel to Adam Sedgwick, dated at Collingwood1 January 1850
HS/15/441Letter, from Sir John Herschel to Adam Sedgwick, dated at Collingwood1848
HS/15/450Letter, from Adam Sedgwick to Sir John Herschel, dated at Lowestoft23 May 1857
HS/15/418Letter, from Adam Sedgwick to Sir John Herschel, dated at Trinity College, Cambridge26 February 1820
HS/15/460Incomplete letter, from Adam Sedgwick to Sir John Herschel1845-4-11 or later
HS/15/448Letter, from Sir John Herschel to Adam Sedgwick, dated at Collingwood1856
HS/15/455Letter, from Sir John Herschel to Adam Sedgwick, dated at Collingwood10 November 1865
HS/15/453Letter, from Sir John Herschel to Adam Sedgwick, dated at Collingwood3 October 1865
HS/15/434Letter, from Sir John Herschel to Adam Sedgwick, dated at Collingwood4 January 1848
HS/15/444Letter, from Adam Sedgwick to Sir John Herschel, dated at Cambridge27 February 1854
HS/15/443Letter, from Adam Sedgwick to Sir John Herschel, dated at Norwich16 May 1853
HS/15/421Letter, from Adam Sedgwick to Sir John Herschel, dated at Trinity College, Cambridge13 November 1820
HS/15/446Letter, from Adam Sedgwick to Sir John Herschel, dated at Cambridge17 December 1855
HS/15/457Letter, from Adam Sedgwick to Sir John Herschel, dated at Suffolk23 June 1868
HS/15/423Letter, from Adam Sedgwick to Sir John Herschel, dated at London17 May 1844
HS/15/436Letter, from Sir John Herschel to Adam Sedgwick, dated at Collingwood23 January 1848
HS/15/425Letter, from Adam Sedgwick to Sir John Herschel, dated at Cambridge11 April 1845
HS/15/438Letter, from Sir John Herschel to Adam Sedgwick, dated at Collingwood5 April 1848
HS/15/461Incomplete letter, from Adam Sedgwick to Sir John Herschel1847-12-25 or later
HS/15/449Letter, from Sir John Herschel to Adam Sedgwick, dated at Collingwood7 May 1865
HS/15/427Letter, from Sir John Herschel to Adam Sedgwick, dated at Collingwood15 April 1845
HS/15/454Letter, from Adam Sedgwick to Sir John Herschel, dated at Lowestoft6 October 1865
HS/15/422Letter, from Sir John Herschel to Adam Sedgwick, dated at Slough3 August 1833
HS/15/458Letter, from Adam Sedgwick to Sir John Herschel, dated at Cambridge12 June 1869
HS/15/447Letter, from Sir John Herschel to Adam Sedgwick, dated at Collingwood11 February 1856
HS/15/419Letter, from Adam Sedgwick to Sir John Herschel, dated at Trinity College, Cambridge20 March 1820
HS/15/439Letter, from Adam Sedgwick to Sir John Herschel, dated at Norwich20? April 1848
HS/15/420Letter, from Sir John Herschel to Adam Sedgwick, dated at Slough9 October 1820
HS/15/445Letter, from Sir John Herschel to Adam Sedgwick, dated at Harley Street11 March 1854
HS/15/432Letter, from Sir John Herschel to Adam Sedgwick, dated at Collingwood23 December 1847
HS/15/429Copy letter, from Adam Sedgwick to Margaret Brodie Herschel, dated at London8 January 1846
HS/15/437Letter, from Adam Sedgwick to Sir John Herschel, dated at Cambridge4 April 1848
HS/15/424Letter, from Sir John Herschel to Adam Sedgwick, dated at Collingwood15 May 1844
HS/15/440Letter, from Sir John Herschel to Adam Sedgwick, dated at Collingwood25 April 1848
HS/15/459Letter, from Sir John Herschel to Adam Sedgwick, dated at Collingwood16 June 1869
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