Harry Govier Seeley was a British paleontologist.
Seeley was born in London, the son of Richard Hovill Seeley, goldsmith, and his second wife Mary Govier. He attended classes at the Royal School of Mines, Kensington before becoming an assistant to Adam Sedgwick at the Woodwardian Museum, Cambridge, from 1859. He matriculated as a student at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 1863. He turned down positions both with the British Museum and the Geological Survey of Britain to work on his own. Late in his career he accepted a position as Professor of Geology at Kings College, Cambridge and Bedford College . He was later Lecturer on Geology and Physiology at Dulwich College and Professor of Geology and Mineralogy at Kings College London .
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