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| Peter Bellinger BRODIE (1815 - 1897) |
| geologist, churchman |
| Children | Self + Spouses | Parents | Grandparents | Greatgrandparents |
| Peter Bellinger BRODIE (1815 - 1897) | Peter Bellinger BRODIE (1778 - 1854) | Peter Bellinger BRODIE (1742 - 1804) | Alexander BRODIE (1701 - 1772) | |
| Margaret SHAW | ||||
| Sarah COLLINS | ||||
| Elizabeth Mary WOOD ( - 1825) | Sutton Thomas WOOD | |||
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| b. 1815 |
| d. 01 Nov 1897 at Rowington, Warwickshire, England aged 82 |
| Parents: |
| Peter Bellinger BRODIE (1778 - 1854) |
| Elizabeth Mary WOOD ( - 1825) |
| Events in Peter Bellinger BRODIE (1815 - 1897)'s life | |||||
| Date | Age | Event | Place | Notes | Src |
| 1815 | Peter Bellinger BRODIE was born | ||||
| 09 May 1825 | 10 | Death of mother Elizabeth Mary WOOD | |||
| 08 Sep 1854 | 39 | Death of father Peter Bellinger BRODIE (aged 76) | London, Middlesex, England | Note 1 | |
| 01 Nov 1897 | 82 | Peter Bellinger BRODIE died | Rowington, Warwickshire, England | Note 2 | |
| Note 1: Free BMD Sep 1854 St Giles 1b 263 |
| Note 2: Free BMD Dec 1897 Warwick 6d 379 |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Bellinger_Brodie
Peter Bellinger Brodie (1815-1897) was an English geologist and churchman, the son of Peter Bellinger Brodie, conveyancer, and nephew of Sir Benjamin C. Brodie. He was born in London in 1815. While residing with his father at Lincoln's Inn Fields, he gained some knowledge of natural history and an interest in fossils from visits to the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, at a time when William Clift was curator. Through the influence of Clift he was elected a fellow of the Geological Society early in 1834. Proceeding to Emmanuel College, Cambridge,[1] Brodie came under the influence of Adam Sedgwick, and devoted his time to geology. Entering the church in 1838, he was curate at Wylye in Wiltshire, and for a short time at Steeple Claydon in Buckinghamshire, becoming later rector of Down Hatherley in Gloucestershire, and finally (1855) vicar of Rowington in Warwickshire, and rural dean. Records of geological observations in all these districts were published by him. At Cambridge Brodie obtained fossil shells from the Pleistocene deposit at Barnwell, Northamptonshire; in the Vale of Wardour he discovered in Purbeck Beds the isopod named by Henri Milne-Edwards[2] Archaeoniscus Brodiei; in Buckinghamshire he described the outliers of Purbeck and Portland Beds; and in the Vale of Gloucester the lias and oolites claimed his attention. Fossil insects, however, formed the subject of his special studies (History of the Fossil Insects of the Secondary Rocks of England, 1845), and many of his published papers relate to them. Brodie was an active member of the Cotteswold Naturalist's Club and of the Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society, and in 1854 he was chief founder of the Warwickshire Naturalists' and Archaeologists' Field Club. In 1887 the Murchison Medal was awarded to him by the Geological Society of London. He died at Rowington on the 1 November 1897. http://www.rogerco.freeserve.co.uk/cfour.htm The Rev.Peter Bellinger Brodie FGS (1815-1st November 1897) held a number of parishes in southern and central England and was the Curate of Down Hatherley near Cheltenham from 1840 to 1853. He was elected a member of the Cotteswold Club on January 18th 1849. Brodie was a collector and author of articles on, fossil insects from the Upper Lias, Lower Lias and Rhaetic. Some of his fossil collection went to Gloucester City Museum, where it still forms part of the geology research collections. Most of it found its way through a sale in 1895 to the Natural History Museum. In 1848 he described a new species of dragonfly which he named Libellulla (Heterophlebia) dislocata found in the Upper Lias at Dumbleton Hill near Cheltenham. It was the first nearly perfect neuropterous insect ever found in this country, and surprisingly it had a wing span of around fourteen inches. By 1865, he had become such an expert on fossil insects that he was able to publish a small book entitled "A History of the Fossil Insects in the Secondary Rocks of England". In 1886 he was Vice President of the Warwickshire Naturalists' and Archaeologists' Field Club. Brodie named various new species of fossils including the little ostracod Cypris liassica from the Avicula contorta zone of the Lower Lias. His insect collections are mostly in the Natural History Museum, London, others are in the collections of the B.G.S. Keyworth; Warwick County Museum (where there is a display on Brodie) ; Dorset County Museum ; Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution ; Gloucester City Museum; and possibly (purchased by) University of Vienna. |