Adam Sedgwick: Letters and notes

Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) was born in Dent, Yorkshire, on 22 March 1785, and educated at Sedbergh School and Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1808), where he became a fellow in 1810. He was ordained in 1816, and was elected to the Woodwardian professorship of geology at Cambridge in 1818. Over the next fifty years Sedgwick lectured regularly and did much to promote the study of natural science in the university. He often spent his vacations carrying out fieldwork in Great Britain, and helped to increase the university's geological collections. He published many papers, and was active in the Geological Society, Royal Society and British Association. He also helped to found the Cambridge Philosophical Society. Sedgwick was involved in much university business and in Church affairs, becoming a canon of Norwich Cathedral in 1834. He died on 27 January 1873.

Copies of letters from Adam Sedgwick to Miss Duncan and Mrs Parker; notes and letters concerning Life and letters of Adam Sedgwick (Cambridge, 1890)

Bequeathed by John Willis Clark, 1910.

Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Adam Sedgwick: Letters and notes, MS Add.5100-5102