IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS 73
Held at: Royal Society
Title: Vernon, Francis
Date(s): 1675-1676
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: Unknown
Name of creator(s): Vernon | Francis | [1637]-1677 | traveller
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Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, c 1637; Education: Westminster School; Christ Church, Oxford; BA (1658), MA (1660); Career: Began his travels before he had taken his Master's degree, captured by pirates and sold; returned to Oxford (c 1660); accompanied the Earl of Carlisle, Ambassador-Extraordinary to Sweden (1668); Secretary to the Embassy at Paris, where he acted as medium of communication between men of science in England and France (1669-1671); Fellow of the Royal Society, 1672; travelled through Venice, Dalmatia, Greece, Turkey and Persia, where he was murdered by some Arabs in a quarrel over a penknife, 1677.
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Scope and content/abstract:
Account by Francis Vernon of his travels through Greece, with numerous copies of old inscriptions and plates. Also a letter dated 15 July 1709 from Richard Mead to the Reverend Dr Chisull.
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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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Paper, bound, 69 ff, size 12 x 8 inches.
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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.