Charles Lapworth blue plaque

St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom

Charles Lapworth, LLD, FRS, 1842-1920. Between 1875 and 1881 Lapworth was a teacher of English at Madras College. In his spare time he studied the rocks of Southern Scotland and used the detailed differences of extinct creatures called graptolites to help unravel the complexities of these ancient ro

cks. As a result of his careful studies, he propsed a new division of Geological Time, the Ordovician Period, that is no recognised and used internationally. He also correctly interpreted the Moine-Th

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