Sir Roderick Impey Murchison

Eminent Victorian geologist and geographer, nephew and legatee of William McKenzie of St Vincent (q.v.) and beneficiary of a monetary legacy of £2000 under the latter's will and a further £2000 under a codicil that was litigated (in favour of Murchison and his co-heirs) in 1826. He was also contingent heir to McKenzie's residuary estate.

T. G. Bonney, ‘Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, baronet (1792–1871)’, rev. Robert A. Stafford, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19555, accessed 27 Sept 2015]