Residence England Fields Zoology Role Zoologist | Name Adam Sedgwick Citizenship British | |
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Born 28 September 1854
Norwich, Norfolk ( 1854-09-28 ) Institutions Cambridge University, Imperial College of London Influences Michael Foster, Francis Maitland Balfour Died February 27, 1913, London, United Kingdom Books Discourse On The Studies Of The Universities of Cambridge Education Giggleswick School, Trinity College, Cambridge Influenced by Michael Foster, Francis Maitland Balfour Similar People Michael Foster, Arthur Shipley, Francis Maitland Balfour | ||
Adam Sedgwick FRS (28 September 1854 – 27 February 1913) was a British zoologist and Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, Imperial College, London, and a great nephew of the renowned geologist Adam Sedgwick.
Sedgwick was born in Norwich, Norfolk in 1854, the son of Rev Richard Sedgwick, vicar of Dent, Yorkshire and his wife Mary Jane, daughter of John Woodhouse of Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire. He was the great-nephew of Rev. Adam Sedgwick (FRS 1821). He married Laura, daughter of Captain Robinson of Armagh.
He was educated at Giggleswick School; Marlborough College; King's College London; and later at Trinity College, Cambridge where he was awarded his BA in 1878, and awarded MA in 1881. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1880); Tutor, Trinity College (1897–1907); Lecturer in Animal Morphology, Cambridge University (1883–1890); Reader in Animal Morphology (1890–1907); Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy (1907–1909); Professor of Zoology, Imperial College, London (1909–1913); Chairman, Geological Survey of Great Britain. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1886.
Sedgwick contributed articles to the 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. He also wrote the “Student's Textbook of Zoology” in three volumes, published in 1898, 1905 and 1909. He was a member of the Athenaeum Club.