Perceval de Loriol
Charles Louis Perceval de Loriol was a Swiss paleontologist and stratigraphist.
He studied natural sciences and paleontology in Geneva as a pupil of François-Jules Pictet. For a period of time, he worked as an estate manager in Geneva and Lorraine, then for nearly forty years was associated with the Natural History Museum of Geneva. He was one of the founders of the Schweizerische Paläontologische Gesellschaft and editor of the Mémoires de la Société suisse paléontologique. In 1902 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva
He is remembered for his investigations of fossil echinoderms found in Europe and North Africa from the Jurassic, Cretaceous and Upper Tertiary Eras. He was the author of numerous taxa, an example being the crinoid family Bourgueticrinidae.
FAMILY
Of a family originally from Bresse he came from a long line of Calvinist military officers, businessmen and politicians. He was the eldest son of Charles Armand Louis Madelain de Loriol and Sophie de Portes.
He married Louise Sophie Le Fort and had six children:
1) Madeleine Mathilde, 1855-1915, married Marc Lombard
2) Helene, 1858-1930, married Theodore Vernet
3) Charles, 1859-1913, married Cecile Zuber
4) Therese, 1861-1958, married Alfred Bonnard
5) Gabriel, 1866-1924, married Louise Lucie de Loriol
6) Pierre, 1872-1960, married Elizabeth von Mandach.