Adam Sedgwick

Who was Adam Sedgwick?

Adam Sedgwick, F.R.S. 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. 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; Tutor, Trinity College; Lecturer in Animal Morphology, Cambridge University; Reader in Animal Morphology; Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy; Professor of Zoology, Imperial College, London; 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 Encyclopaedia Britannica. He also wrote the "STUDENT'S TEXT BOOK OF ZOOLOGY" in three volumes, published in 1898, 1905 and 1909. He was a member of the Athenaeum Club.