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Sedgwick Memorial, Dent
locality:-   Dent
civil parish:-   Dent (formerly Yorkshire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   memorial
locality type:-   rocks
coordinates:-   SD70508700
1Km square:-   SD7086
10Km square:-   SD78

photograph
BJW18.jpg  Memorial to Adam Sedgwick, born in Dent, 1785, professor of geology, Cambridge University, died 1873.
"ADAM SEDGWICK 1785-1873" (taken 23.9.2005)  
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Sedgwick Fountain
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"SEDGWICK FOUNTAIN / / MAIN STREET / DENT / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484418 / SD7050886997"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Memorial fountain. Late C19. Commemorates Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873), Woodwardian Professor of Geology, Cambridge University. Roughly-hewn pink granite. Roughly-rectangular base with a trough cut in it; massive irregular tapered pier with arched drinking fountain cut into it, and to right of that "ADAM SEDGWICK" inscribed in Gothick lettering, with the dates "1785-1873" below. Forms group with Sedgwick Cottage (qv), gateway to churchyard of Church of St Andrew (qv) and Ivy Cottage (qv)."
evidence:-   old print:- Thompson 1894
source data:-   Print, engraving, Memorial to Adam Sedgwick, Dent, Yorkshire, published by Richard Jackson, Commercial Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1894.
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On p.108 of An Illustrated Guide to Sedbergh, Garsdale, and Dent, by W Thompson. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A1612.B30
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evidence:-   old print:- Clark and Hughes 1890
source data:-   Print, the Memorial Fountain at Dent, in memory of Adam Sedgwick, 1785-1873, published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, 1890.
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On vol.2 p.484 of The Life and Letters of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick. 
item:-  private collection : 195.12
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BJW19.jpg  
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