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Sir Roderick Murchison KCB DCL FRS PRGS FRSE FLS MRIA PBA

Photograph at the Sir Roderick Murchison KCB DCL FRS PRGS FRSE FLS MRIA PBA blue plaque

Formerly the residence of Sir Roderick Murchison, twice President of The Royal Geographical Society. He died in 1871, aged 79, a great geologist and explorer. A town in New Zealand, falls on the Nile, a mountain range and river in Australia and a sound in Greenland are all named after him.

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