Sir John Austen, 1st Baronet (d. 1742) was a British landowner and politician. He was MP for Middlesex and created a baronet in 1714.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John_Austen,_1st_Baronet [accessed 28 February 2017].
Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli (1658-1730) was an Italian soldier and naturalist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1691. Marsigli published several books, established a printing-house, and founded an Institute of Sciences and Arts in 1715.
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Ferdinando_Marsili [accessed 28 February 2017]).
Govard Bidloo (1649-1713) was a predominant Dutch physician whose research focussed primarily on anatomy research. He was a professor of anatomy at The Hague giving lectures on anatomical dissection before he became the professor of anatomy and surgery at Leiden in 1694. He became a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1696. He was the physician of William III, King of England, who died in his arms in 1702. His most famous publication is Anatomia Humani Corporis (1685) illustrated by Gerard de Lairesse featuring images and notes of living and dissected human figures.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Govert_Bidloo accessed 28th February 2017
David Parry (1682?-1714) was a Welsh scholar and assistant to the naturalist Edward Lhuyd. From 1709 to 1714 he was Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Parry_(scholar) accessed 28th February 2017
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) ran away from home at age 17 to work as a printer in Philadelphia and set off to London shortly thereafter. He worked as a typesetter near the Church of St Bartholomew-the-Great in Smithfield. The asbestos purse he gave Hans Sloane has remained in the latter’s collection to the present. He returned to America in 1726. Franklin became a noted scientist, writer, diplomat, statesman, and Founding Father of the United States of America.
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin [accessed 26 March 2017]).
George Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (ca. 1683-1739) was a British politician. From 1705 to 1715 he was MP for Northampton and served, at various times, as Auditor of the Exchequer, Privy Councillor, and Lord Justice
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Montagu,_1st_Earl_of_Halifax accessed 30th March 2017
Joseph Browne (bap.1673 d. in or after 1721) was a physician and satirist known as a ‘notorious quack’. He graduated from Jesus College Cambridge in 1694 with MB and assumed the title MD, though it is not sure from which college. Browne practiced as a physician in Yorkshire and published satirical works that got him accused of libelling Queen Anne’s Administration. He clashed with the College of Physicians and lectured against William Hervey’s theory of the Circulation of Blood. However, Browne did translate significant medical works to English.
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D. D. Gibbs, “Browne, Joseph (bap. 1673, d. in or after 17210”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Richard Beard (c. 1688-1734) was a physician. He took his MA at Glasgow (1709) and MD at Leyden (1713). Beard practised at Worcester and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1726.
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(https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27beard%27%29 [accessed 13 April 2017]).
Johann Daniel Schoepflin (1694-1771) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1728. He was Professor of History and Eloquence at Strasbourg.
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(https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27schoepflin%27%29 [accessed 12 April 2017]).
Eustachio Manfredi (1674-1739) was an Italian mathematician, astronomer, and poet. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1729.
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustachio_Manfredi [accessed 12 APril 2017]).