| Authorised form of name | Sedgwick; Adam (1785 - 1873) |
| Dates | 1785 - 1873 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Dent, Yorkshire, England |
| Date of birth | 22 March 1785 |
| Place of death | Cambridge |
| Date of death | 27 January 1873 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
In the chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Research field | Geology |
| Activity | Education:
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 category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 01/02/1821 |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Copley Medal 1863 |
| Relationships | Son of a parson; great-uncle of Adam Sedgwick (FRS 1886) |
| Source | Sources:
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 File | http://viaf.org/viaf/64179295 |
| Code | NA3549 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| DM/1/31 | Letter from Adam Sedgwick, Trinity College, Cambridge | 23 March 1831 |
| MS/710/101 | Letter from Adam Sedgwick, Trinity College, to William Jory Henwood | 26 October 1831 [and 2 August 1831] |
| MS/710/103 | Letter from Adam Sedgwick, Parsonage, Dent, near Kendal, to Mrs Anna Maria Fox | 16 February 1859 |
| MS/682/31 | Letter from Adam Sedgwick, Trinity College, to James Sowerby, 2 Mead Place, Lambeth | 5 March 1822 |
| MC/6/50 | Letter from W Wakefield, Kendal, to Reverend A [Adam] Sedgwick | 13 December 1859 |
| MC/6/51 | Letter from A [Adam] Sedgwick, Cambridge, to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 17 December 1859 |
| MS/710/102 | Letter from Adam Sedgwick, Norwich, to Robert Were Fox, Falmouth | 16 February 1846 |
| RR/1/46 | Referee'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 Darwin | 26 March 1839 |
| MS/928/6/1/3 | Letter from Adam Sedgwick, Cambridge, to 'My dear Sir' [Christopher Erle?] | 24 July 1860 |
| EC/1820/17 | Sedgwick, Adam: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MC/3/250 | Letter from Robert Stevens, 4 Queens Place, Kennington, to Dr. [Peter Mark] Roget, [Secretary of the Royal Society] | 4 December 1842 |
| MC/3 | Volume 3 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1839-1843 |
| MC/6 | Volume 6 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1859-1863 |
| MC/8/22 | Letter from A [Adam] Sedgwick, Trinity College Cambridge, to the Royal Society | 5 March 1867 |
| MS/257/4/193 | Letter from Adam Sedgwick, Cambridge to Edward Sabine | 26 June 1869 |
| MC/9/510 | Letter from Robert Westall, 309 Essex Road, Islington, to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 6 March 1873 |
| MC/9 | Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1870-June 1873 |
| RR/2/224 | Referee'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 Sharpe | 4 March 1852 |
| MC/8 | Volume 8 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1867-1869 |
| MS/257/4/192 | Letter from Adam Sedgwick, Cambridge to Edward Sabine | 13 June 1869 |