The club was founded in honour of
Adam Sedgwick in 1880. Almost every year after its foundation the Sedgwick Club ran yearly field excursions. Sets of notes, photos, sketches, maps and diagrams from these are kept in the Conservation Laboratories of the
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences. This annual field trip has been replaced by the "Magical Mystery Tour" in modern times, which involves a weekend excursion at the beginning of Lent term to a location unknown to all on the tour except the club committee members. Careful minutes and accounts have been taken throughout the whole history of the club, which have also survived and are held in The Sedgwick Museum. Women members were accepted in 1896. == Notable people ==