Francis Drake (1696 – 1771) was a surgeon and antiquary. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1736, the same year his ‘Eboracum, or, The History and Antiquities of the City of York’ was published. The first of his multi-volume ‘The parliamentary or constitutional History of England from the earliest times to the restoration of King Charles II’ were released in 1751.
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Francis Drake to Hans Sloane, 1731-09-27, Sloane MS 4052, ff. 22-24, British Library, London
(C. Bernard L. Barr, Drake, Francis (bap. 1696, d. 1771), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/8023, accessed 24 Aug 2017]
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