Letter 3715

Meyer Löw Schomberg to Hans Sloane – January 27, 1729/30


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Date: January 27, 1729/30
Author: Meyer Löw Schomberg
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4050
Folio: ff. 268-269



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[fol. 268] Sr Since Mr de Crasto Sarmento has been a second time propos’d to the Royal Society on Thursday last, by the request of one Rudoriguez, I Count it my duty to represent to you as our President that it is to be fear’d a dishonour may be brought upon the Society by the admission of an unworthy person, whose character from Portugal is represented an informer, and who since he has been in this kingdom has deny’d his own stand to a money security which was after fully prov’d to be his in the Court of Chancery, which Facts will Clearly appear, shou’d you be pleas’d to depute any worthy person for shal purpose to enquire of Mr Justice Tallboy in Hoxton, & Mr Stevenson in Basinghall street, also the Gentlemen of repute of his own nation I am Sr your most obedt humble serv’t M Schomburg Jan: 27 1729-30

Meyer Löw Schomburg (1690-1761) was a German physician. He settled in London in 1721, treating the poor at the Great Synagogue. He was admitted a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1722 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1726. In 1729 Schomburg tried to block the entry of his rival Jacob de Castro Sarmento into the Royal Society (Edgar Samuel, ‘Schomberg , Meyer Löw (1690–1761)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24826, accessed 20 Aug 2014]).




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