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Education
He was educated at St Paul's School, London, the University of St. Andrews and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1791, proceeding M.A. in 1794.A law student at Lincoln's Inn, Lyell also travelled. In 1796 he inherited the Kinnordy estate at Kirriemuir. He gave up law as a profession, and married.From 1797 to 1825 Lyell lived at Bartley Lodge in the New Forest; in 1813 he became a fellow of the Linnean Society. In 1826 he settled at Kinnordy, and he died there on 8 November 1849, leaving a library of works relating to his studies.
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