Reverend Peter Brodie
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Brodie was born in London 1815 and attended the Royal College of Surgeons. His passion and fascination for natural history and geology started at an early age.
In 1834 Brodie studied Divinity at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. During this period he conducted his own natural history and geological field studies of the area. It was from these studies that he later published a paper entitled ‘A notice on the occurrence of land and fresh water shells with bones of some extinct animals in the gravel near Cambridge’. This was his first publication.
Brodie was ordained as a deacon in 1838 and the following year he became a priest and lived in Buckinghamshire. In 1851 he was appointed Vicar at St Lawrence’s Church in Foleshill, Coventry and so he moved to Rowington.
His enthusiasm for geology and natural history never ceased. He joined the Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society and was soon made an Honorary Curator of Geology. He founded the Warwickshire Naturalists and Archaeologists Field Club and donated many of his privately collected specimens to the Society.
Brodie died in 1897. His personal collection numbered some 25,000 specimens. Over the 30 years he was Honorary Curator for the Society he had built the geological collection up to around 10,000 specimens. Many of these can be clearly identified amongst the museum's present-day collection.
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