Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, FRS was a Scottish geologist who demonstrated the power of known natural causes in explaining the earth's history. Wikipedia
Born: November 14, 1797, Kinnordy Estates, Kinnordy, United Kingdom
Died: February 22, 1875 (age 77 years), Harley Street, London, United Kingdom
Education: Exeter College (1816–1821), University of Oxford, and King's College London
Influenced by: James Hutton, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, and William Buckland
Influenced: Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, and Thomas Henry Huxley
Grandparents: Charles Lyell of Kinnordy and Mary Beale