Background
Sedgwick was born in Norwich, Norfolk in 1854, the son of Rev Richard Sedgwick, vicar of Dent, Yorkshire and his wife Mary Jane, daughter of John Woodhouse of Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire.
Sedgwick was born in Norwich, Norfolk in 1854, the son of Rev Richard Sedgwick, vicar of Dent, Yorkshire and his wife Mary Jane, daughter of John Woodhouse of Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire.
He was the great-nephew of Review Adam Sedgwick (Federal Reserve System 1821). He was educated at Giggleswick School.
Marlborough College.
King"s College London. And later at Trinity College, Cambridge where he was awarded his Bachelor in 1878, and awarded Master of Arts in 1881. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1880).
Tutor, Trinity College (1897–1907).
Lecturer in Animal Morphology, Cambridge University (1883–1890). Reader in Animal Morphology (1890–1907).
Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy (1907–1909). Professor of Zoology, Imperial College, London (1909–1913).
Chairman, Geological Survey of Great Britain.
He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1886. Sedgwick contributed articles to the 1911 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. He also wrote the “Student"s Textbook of Zoology” in three volumes, published in 1898, 1905 and 1909.
Royal Society]
He was a member of the Athenaeum Club.
