Stukeley, William: Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0117 MS/142
Held at	: Royal Society   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://royalsociety.org/collections/ ›
Full 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
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

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.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

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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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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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions:
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.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Feb 2009.