Prestwich, SIR JOSEPH (1812-96), was a London wine-merchant till he was sixty, in 1874 became professor of Geology at Oxford, and in 1896 was knighted. See the Life by his wife (1899).
Prestwich, SIR JOSEPH
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 399
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