Sir Charles Lyell, first baronet

(1797-1875)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875 NRA: Lyell Sir Charles (1797-1875) 1st Baronet geologist DNB: Lyell, Sir Charles, first baronet (1797-1875), geologist LBT ID: ChLyell1875 VIAF ID: 68999334 LOC ID: n82000959	B/BAP: 1797-11-14 DIED: 1875-02-22
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Scottish geologist educated at Exeter College, Oxford; he was author of Principles of Geology (1830-33) and The Antiquity of Man (1863).
REFERENCES TO Sir Charles Lyell, first baronet: John Murray to Anne Murray, August 1835 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 2 John Gibson Lockhart to Henry Hart Milman, 16 April 1849 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Saba Holland, 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) Chapter IX Found 1: ¶ 106 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter IX Found 1: ¶ 28 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter IV. 1838-41. Found 1: ¶ 22 Chapter X. 1852-55. Found 1: ¶ 9-12 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXVIII. Found 1: ¶ 44 Chap. XXXI. Chap. XXXII. Found 3: ¶ 40 ¶ 42 ¶ 43 Chap. XXXIV. Found 1: ¶ 62 Chap. XXXV. Found 1: ¶ 17 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 21: 1842-50