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BRODIE, PETER BELLINGER (1815–1897)

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BRODIE, See also:PETER BELLINGER (1815–1897) , See also:English geologist, son of P. B. Brodie, See also:barrister, and See also:nephew of See also:Sir See also:Benjamin C. Brodie, was See also:born in See also:London in 1815. While still residing with his See also:father at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn See also:Fields, he gained some knowledge of natural See also:history and an See also:interest in fossils from visits to the museum of the Royal See also:College of Surgeons, at a See also:time when W. Clift was See also:curator. Through the See also:influence of Clift he was elected a See also:fellow of the See also:Geological Society See also:early in 1834. Proceeding afterwards to See also:Emmanuel College, See also:Cambridge, he came under the spell of See also:Sedgwick, and henceforth devoted all his leisure time to See also:geology. Entering the See also:church in 1838, he was See also:curate at Wylye in See also:Wiltshire, and for a See also:short time at See also:Steeple Claydon in See also:Buckinghamshire, becoming later See also:rector of Down See also:Hatherley in See also:Gloucestershire, and finally (1855) See also:vicar of Rowington in See also:Warwickshire, and rural See also:dean. Records of geological observations in all these districts were published by him. At Cambridge he obtained fossil shells from the See also:Pleistocene See also:deposit at Barnwell; in the Vale of Wardour he discovered in Purbeck Beds the isopod named by Milne-See also:Edwards Archaeoniscus Brodiei; in Buckinghamshire he described the outliers of Purbeck and See also:Portland Beds; and in the Vale of See also:Gloucester the See also:Lias and Oolites claimed his See also:attention. Fossil See also:insects, however, formed the subject of his See also:special studies (History of the Fossil Insects of the Secondary Rocks of See also:England, 1845), and many of his published papers relate to them.

He was an active member of the Cotteswold Naturalists' See also:

Club and of the Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society, and in 1854 he was See also:chief founder of the Warwickshire Naturalists' and Archaeologists' See also:Field Club. In 1887 the See also:Murchison See also:medal was awarded to him by the Geological Society of London. He died at Rowington, on the 1st of See also:November 1897. See Memoir by H. B. See also:Woodward in Geological See also:Magazine, 1897, p. 481 (with portrait).

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