Posted on August 18, 2017 by Tallulah Pepperell -
Samuel Doody was a member of the Royal Society from 1695. He was a botanist who stored many of his dried specimens in Sloane’s herbarium, and was the curator of the Chelsea Physic Garden from 1963 until his death in 1705.
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Samuel Doody to James Petiver, Date Unknown, Sloane MS 4066, f. 327, British Library, London.
Samuel Doody, Fellow Details, The Royal Society, [https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29%3D%27Doody,%20Samuel%27%29, accessed 17/08/2017)
B. D. Jackson, Doody, Samuel (16561706), rev. Ruth Stungo, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7825, accessed 17/08/2017])
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Posted on August 22, 2017 by Tallulah Pepperell -
Rose Fuller (1708-1777) was a politician, gun-founder and landowner. He was Sir Hans Sloane’s grandson. Fuller studied medicine at Cambridge from 1725 to 1728 and Leiden from 1729 to 1732 and went to Jamaica in 1733 to supervise the family estates. He served in the Jamaican assembly for some time before returning to England in 1755. Fuller was elected MP for Rye in 1768.
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Rose Fuller to Hans Sloane, 1731-07-21, Sloane MS 4051, ff. 278-279, British Library, London.
J. S. Hodgkinson, Fuller family (per. 1650-1803), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47494, accessed 21 Aug 2017])
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Posted on August 24, 2017 by Tallulah Pepperell -
John Armstrong (1674-1742) was a military engineer. He served as Lieutenant in St John’s Regiment of Foot (1691), under the Duke of Marlborough, as Major-General and Quartermaster-General (1713), Chief Engineer of England (1714-death), Colonel of the Royal Regiment of Foot in Ireland (1717), and Master Surveyor of the Ordnance (1722). Armstrong was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1723.
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John Armstrong to Recipience, 1732-02-07, Sloane MS 4052, ff. 62-63, British Library, London
Paul Latcham, Armstrong, John (1674-1742), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2014 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/659, accessed 24 Aug 2017]
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Posted on September 3, 2017 by Tallulah Pepperell -
Joseph Gulston, (1744/5–1786), was a book and art collector and connoisseur, and a politician.
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Joseph Gulston to J. Petiver, Date Unknown, Sloane MS 4066, f. 363, British Library, London
Richard Garnett, ‘Gulston, Joseph (1744/5–1786)’, rev. S. J. Skedd, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2013 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11734, accessed 3 Sept 2017]
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Posted on September 19, 2017 by Tallulah Pepperell -
Elizabeth Welwood (c. 1670-1732), nee Tregonwell Seymour, married the physician and writer James Welwood (1652-1727) in 1703. She wrote to Sloane recommending he aid a young women who was in need of financial and medical help.
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Elizabeth Welwood to Hans Sloane, 1731-04-03, Sloane MS 4051, ff. 219-220, British Library, London.
(Elizabeth Lane Furdell; Welwood, James (1652-1727), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29023, accessed 21 Aug 2017]
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Posted on April 23, 2017 by Amy Smith -
Sir Robert Cotton, 5th Baronet (1669-1749) was a Jacobite and involved in the 1715 rebellion. He lived in exile in France before returning to England.
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Stuart Handley, ‘Cotton, Sir Robert Bruce, first baronet (1571–1631)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2011 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6425 [accessed 23 July 2014]; Sir Robert Cotton, fifth baronet (1669–1749): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6424).
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Posted on April 17, 2017 by Amy Smith -
George Kelly (b. 1688, d. in or after 1747) was a Jacobite agent and conspirator. He was arrested twice in 1722 for his involvement in a plot to restore the Stuarts. Kelly was imprisoned in the Tower of London, where he was supported by his family, Jacobite members of parliament, and Sir Hans Sloane. He escaped in 1736 and fled to France.
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Roger Turner, ‘Kelly, George (b. 1688, d. in or after 1747)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15297 [accessed 29 Aug 2014]).
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Posted on March 30, 2017 by Tracey Cornish -
Sir Littleton Powys (1647-1732) was a judge during the reigns of Prince of Orange, Queen Anne, and George I. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1724.
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Stuart Handley, “Powys, Sir Littleton (1647-1732)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22678, accessed 17 June 2011].
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Posted on April 5, 2017 by Amy Smith -
Michael Maittaire was a classical scholar, typographer, and schoolmaster. He was educated at Westminster School and and Christ Church, Oxford. Mattaire was under-master at Westminster School from 1695 to 1699 before founding his own private school at Mile End. He published editions of Latin and Greek classics throughout his scholarly career and had an extensive library.
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Margaret Clunies Ross, Amanda J. Collins, ‘Maittaire, Michael (1668-1747)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2009 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17841 [accessed 16 Aug 2013]).
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Posted on March 30, 2017 by Tracey Cornish -
Peter Anthony Motteux translated many French works into English, authoring many works himself, as well as publishing in the press.
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David Hopkins, Motteux, Peter Anthony (16631718), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19423, accessed 22 June 2011].
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