Roderick Murchison, 1st Baronet

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British geologist (1792-1871)

ScientistsLived 1792 to 1871 · aged 79

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Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet was a Scottish geologist who served as director-general of the British Geological Survey from 1855 until his death in 1871. He is noted for investigating and describing the Silurian, Devonian and Permian systems.

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Vanity Fair print of Sir Roderick Murchison

Roderick Impey Murchison posing with cane

Murchison photographed by Camille Silvy in 1860

Tarradale House

Funerary monument, Brompton Cemetery, London

Lithographic Sketch, Dudley from Wren's Nest by Charlotte Murchison in The Silurian System, 1839, p.480

Memorial stone and tablet in Perm, Russia

Awards 12

1871Founder’s Medal

1864Wollaston Medal

1859Makdougall Brisbane Prize

Fellow of the Royal Society

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath

Copley Medal

honorary doctor of the University of Vienna

Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Fellow of the Linnean Society of London

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Order of Saint Anna, 2nd class

Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London

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SpouseCharlotte Murchison

Connected to Roderick 6

Charles Canning, 1st Earl CanningAlso won Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London

Arthur HolmesAlso won Makdougall Brisbane Prize

Erich von TschermakAlso won honorary doctor of the University of Vienna

Paweł StrzeleckiAlso won Founder’s Medal

Harold JeffreysAlso won Wollaston Medal

Robert BroomAlso won Wollaston Medal