Robert Balle (d. 1733) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1708 and served on its Council in 1710 and between 1712 and 1720.
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(http://rsnr.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/55/3/351 [accessed 11 Feb 2017]).
Lady Elizabeth Russell (1680-1711) was the wife of Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford.
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(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wriothesley_Russell,_2nd_Duke_of_Bedford [accessed 11 February 2017]).
Thomas Salmon (bap.1647 d. 1706) graduated Trinity College in 1664, received his BA in 1667 and MA in 1670 in Mathematics. In 1672 he published “Essay to the Advancement of Musick” which was recommended by the Royal Society but found to be controversial and began an ongoing disagreement between Salmon and Matthew Locke. In 1688 Salmon published “A Proposal to perform music in Perfect and Mathematical Proportions” that was largely ignored by the music world. In 1701 he shifted to publishing several historical works until 1705 when he gave a lecture at the Royal Society in “Just Inotation” accompanied by performers playing instruments modified to his designs. The lecture was written up in Philosophical Transactions. Salmon died the rector of Meppershall in 1706.
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(“Donald R. Boomgaarden, “Salmon, Thomas (bap. 1647, d. 1706)”, The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; Henry Davey “Thomas Salmon (1648-1706)” Wikisource).
Robert Taylor was the apothecary. In 1693 he married Sarah Beck of Stepney. He published his work in the Philosophical Transactions on ‘The Osteology of an Elephant’
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“A Guide to Hertfordshire, by an Old Inhabitant” Hertford: Simson and Co., Marketplace, 1880; “Allegations for Marriage Licences issued by the Vicar-General of the Archbishop of Canterbury July1649-June1687” ed. George J. Armytage F.S.A., London, 1890.
Francesco Cornaro (1670-1734) was the Venetian Ambassador in London. Italian by birth, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1708.
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https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Cornaro_(dyplomata) accessed 23rd February 2017
by John Smith, after Charles D’Agar, mezzotint, 1706
Peter Hardisway was a student at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1719 and practised medicine in Dover.
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(http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/2024 [accessed 13 February 2017]).
Johann Ernst Grabe (1666 to 1711), also known as John Ernest Grabe, was a professor of theology and history. He studied Christian religious conflicts, was ordained in 1700, and was Chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford.
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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.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657-1757) was a French author. He became a member of L’Academie francaise in 1691 and from 1697 he was perpetual secretary to L’Academie des Sciences. Fontenelle was very popular with French high society and his books were widely read.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Le_Bovier_de_Fontenelle.
Des Maizeaux was a French Huguenot writer in exile in London known for his translations of Pierre Bayle as well as publications of his own.
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