Letter 2361

Thomas Bury to Hans Sloane – November 27, 1719


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Date: November 27, 1719
Author: Thomas Bury
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: ff. 269-270



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Thomas Bury (bap. 1652, d. 1722) was a judge, appointed to the bench by both Queen Anne and George I. He was sympathetic to the whigs and given the position of chief baron of the exchequer in 1716, and member of the Royal Society in 1718 (Stuart Handley, Bury, Sir Thomas (bap. 1652, d. 1722), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4155, accessed 17 Aug 2011]).




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