sub-fonds GB 0117 MS/142 - Stukeley, William: Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life

1 bound volume, 30 pages

GB 0117 MS/142 1752 Sub-fonds 1 bound volume, 30 pages Stukeley , William , 1687-1765 , antiquary and natural philosopher

Born, 1687; Free school at Holbeach; Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; MB (1708), MD (1719); studied anatomy under Mr Rolfe, a surgeon in Chancery Lane, and medicine under Richard Mead (FRS 1703) at St Thomas's Hospital; practiced in Boston, Lincolnshire, 1710-1717; in London, 1717-1726; and in Grantham, Lincolnshire, 1726-1730, where his patients included members of the local aristocracy; Fellow of the Royal Society, 1718; ordained deacon and priest, 1729; Vicar of All Saints, Stamford, 1729-1747; Rector of St George-the-Martyr, Queen Square, London, 1747-1765; friend of Sir Isaac Newton (FRS 1672); died of palsy, 1765; his collections of Roman coins, fossils, pictures and antiquities were sold after his death.

Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life by William Stukeley, 1752, bound in at the back is the following printed tract 'The life of Sir Isaac Newton with an Account of his Writings. London. J. Roberts, Oxford Arms in Warwick Lane, 1728'.

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

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Microfilm made 2004. Digital version 2006.

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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Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life by William Stukeley, 1752, bound in at the back is the following printed tract 'The life of Sir Isaac Newton with an Account of his Writings. London. J. Roberts, Oxford Arms in Warwick Lane, 1728'.

Open.

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

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English

Microfilm made 2004. Digital version 2006.

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