Charles William Peach

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...