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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.
At the University of Oxford, Charles Lyell pursued studies in classics, mathematics, and geology. His interest in geology was specifically sparked by the lectures of William Buckland.1