IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS/142
Held at: Royal Society
Title: Stukeley, William: Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life
Date(s): 1752
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: 1 bound volume, 30 pages
Name of creator(s): Stukeley | William | 1687-1765 | antiquary and natural philosopher
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Administrative/Biographical history:
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.
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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'.
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Language/scripts of material: English
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Open.
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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.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.