Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698-1759) was a French mathematician, philosopher, and man of letters. He was the Director of the Académie des Sciences and the first President of the Prussian Academy of Science at the invitation of Frederick the Great.
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Louis_Maupertuis [accessed 13 April 2017]).
René Jacques Croissant de Garengeot (1688-1759) was a French surgeon. He was Surgeon-Major of the Régiment du Roy and the Physician-in-Ordinary of the Roi au Châtelet. Garengeot was a member of l’Académie de chirurgie de Paris and the Royal Society.
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(http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/René-Jacques_Croissant_de_Garengeot [accessed 13 April 2017]).
Thomas Stack (d. 1756) was a physician. He authored several articles in the Philosophical Transaction and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1738.
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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%27stack%27%29 [accessed 13 April 2017]).
David Erskine (1672-1745), 9th Earl of Buchan was invested as a Privy Counsellor in 1697 and held several other posts. He lost his appointments because of his opposition to the Acts of Union 1707.
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Mosley, Charles, (ed) Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke’s Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 565.
Caleb Cotesworth (d. 1741) was Physician to St Thomas’ Hospital. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1718. Cotesworth left a fortune of £100,000 and £200,000 at his death.
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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%27cotesworth%27%29 [accessed 13 April 2017]).
Louis Bertrand Castel (1688-1757) was a French mathematician. He entered the order of the Jesuits in 1703. Castel authored several works on optics a critique of Sir Isaac Newton’s system in 1743.
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Bertrand_Castel [accessed 13 April 2017]).
Jacob Theodor Klein (1685-1759) was a Royal Prussian jurist, historian, botanist, mathematician, and diplomat who worked for August II, King of Poland. He was Secretary to the Senate of Danzig and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1729.
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Theodor_Klein [accessed 13 April 2017]).
Mary Grey (nee Tufton) (d. 1785) was the daughter of Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet, and Lady Catharine Cavendish. She married Anthony Grey, Earl of Harold, in 1718. After the latter’s death she married John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower, in 1736.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Grey,_Earl_of_Harold; accessed 11th April 2017
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Tufton,_6th_Earl_of_Thanet accessed 11th April 2017
Sarah Lennox (1705-1751), Duchess of Richmond and Lennox was married to Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond. She was born Sarah Cadogan to William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan and Margaret Cecilia Munter. Sarah was the Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Caroline from 1724 to 1737.
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Lennox,_Duchess_of_Richmond_and_Lennox [accessed 13 April 2017]).
William Hussey was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the Royal College Physicians in 1724. He lived in of Bourne, Lincolnshire .
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(http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/2348 [accessed 13 April 2017]).