Charles William Peach

Charles William Peach ALS (30 September 1800 – 28 February 1886) was a British naturalist and geologist. He discovered fossils in Cornwall, after it had been stated by the geologists William Conybeare, that there were no fossil-bearing rocks in Cornwall.

Charles William Peach resided at Bull Hill, Fowey, in a pretty house (then Victoria cottage ) overlooking the English Channel ,where he was visited by Alfred Lord Tennyson and Charles Darwin, they would take regular boat trips to Mevagissey. Tennyson would be a regular visitor and convelessed at Victoria cottage during

He was born at Wansford, then in Northamptonshire; his father at the time was a Yeoman farmer, saddler and harness-maker, and innkeeper, farming about eighty acres (0.32 km²) of land. He received an elementary education at Wansford and at Folkingham in Lincolnshire; and assisted for several years in the inn and farm. Peach did not like drunks and concentrated upon the farm, leaving his brothers to run the inn. (Samuel Smiles)

In January 1824 under the advisement of Lord Westmoreland (Cabal) (Samuel Smile LL.D- "Robert Dick, Baker of Thurso, Geologist and Botanist") he was appointed riding officer in the HM Coastguard at Weybourne in Norfolk. He had never seen the sea and as he walked along the shore seaweeds and other marine organisms attracted his attention, and these he zealously collected. His duties during the next few years led him to remove successively to Sheringham, Hasboro (Happisburgh), Cromer, and Cley, all in Norfolk.

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