He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a mathematics tutor in 1815 before being elected Woodwardian professor of geology (1818-73). He was a friend of Charles Darwin.

REFERENCES TO Adam Sedgwick:

Samuel Rogers to Richard Sharp, 21 November 1834 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

Sydney Smith to Roderick Impey Murchison, 30 March 1839 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)

John Gibson Lockhart to Charlotte Lockhart Hope, 2 February 1848 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897)