Charles Lyell called her timid. Benjamin Disraeli called her the silent wife of a stiff geological prig. Yet Charlotte Murchison was the woman who opened up the lecture theatres of Kings College London to female geology students, who collected fossils across the UK and continental Europe despite relapsing malaria, and who is credited with the making of one the most lauded careers in 19th Century geology — that of her husband, Roderick Impey Murchison. Charlotte Murchison 1788-1869 was clearly more than just someone’s shy and quiet wife.
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