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Charles Lyell
Charles Lyell, detail of a replica in oil by Lowes Cato Dickinson, 1883; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Charles Lyell, the influential Scottish geologist known for popularizing the theory of uniformitarianism, was knighted in 1848. He was later made a baronet in 1864.1