Charles William Peach
British geologist
Died when: 85 years 151 days (1024 months)Star Sign: Libra
Charles William Peach ALS (30 September 1800 – 28 February 1886) was a British naturalist and geologist.He discovered fossils in Cornwall, after it had been stated by the geologists William Conybeare, that there were no fossil-bearing rocks in Cornwall.
Charles William Peach resided at a house in Fowey, a pretty house (then Victoria cottage) overlooking the English Channel, where he was visited by Alfred Lord Tennyson and Charles Darwin, they would take regular boat trips to Mevagissey.
Tennyson would be a regular visitor and convalesced at Victoria cottage during illness
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