sub-fonds GB 0117 MS/108 - Sherard, William

91 items

GB 0117 MS/108 [18th century] Sub-fonds 91 items Sherard , William , 1659-1728 , botanist

Education: Merchant Taylors' School; St John's College, Oxford; BCL (1683), Incorporated at Cambridge (1685), DCL (1694); studied botany under Tournefort in Paris (1686-1688); Leyden (admitted 1694); Padua (admitted 1696). Career: Fellow of St John's (1683-1703); granted permission to travel abroad for three periods of five years each (1685); travelled to Geneva, Rome and Naples, Cornwall and Jersey, sending lists of the plants he saw to John Ray (FRS 1667); Tutor to Sir Arthur Rawdon at Moira, Co Down (1690-1694), Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend (FRS 1706), with whom he travelled in Europe (1694), Wriothesley, son of William, Lord Russell, with whom he travelled in France and Italy (1695-1699), Henry, Duke of Beaufort, at Badminton (1700-1702); Commissioner for Sick and Wounded Prisoners (1702); English Consul at Smyrna, where he grew many rare plants in his garden, formed a celebrated herbarium and travelled in Asia Minor (1703-1717); travelled in Europe (1721, 1723, 1727); bequeathed £3000 to found the chair of Botany at Oxford first occupied by his friend John James Dillenius (FRS 1724).

Mercantile Papers of Dr William Sherard, also known as Sherard Additional Letters.

Open

No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

English

Guardbook, size 15 x 12 inches.

Table of contents at front of volume; individual items in Archive Card Catalogue.

MS/88; MS/252-6.

Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

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Mercantile Papers of Dr William Sherard, also known as Sherard Additional Letters.

Open

No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

• inglês

• latim

English

MS/88; MS/252-6.

Table of contents at front of volume; individual items in Archive Card Catalogue.

General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

• inglês