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Charles William Peach
English naturalist and geologist
Quick Facts
- Born:
- Sept. 30, 1800, Wansford, Northamptonshire, Eng.
- Died:
- Feb. 28, 1886, Edinburgh (aged 85)
- Subjects Of Study:
- invertebrate
- fossil
- ocean
Charles William Peach (born Sept. 30, 1800, Wansford, Northamptonshire, Eng.—died Feb. 28, 1886, Edinburgh) was an English naturalist and geologist who made valuable contributions to the knowledge of marine invertebrates and of fossil plants and fish. While in the revenue coast guard (1824–45) in Norfolk, his attention was attracted to seaweeds and other marine organisms, and he began to collect them. In Cornwall, Peach found fossils in some of the older rocks previously regarded as unfossiliferous. This discovery proved the presence of Bala beds (Ordovician strata, about 444 million to 488 million years old) nearby. In 1841 he wrote a ...(100 of 215 words)