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Authorised form of nameHucks; Robert (- 1745)
Dates - 1745
NationalityBritish
Date of death21 December 1745
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Aldenham, Hertfordshire
OccupationBrewer
ActivityEducation:
Trinity Hall, Cambridge (admitted 1716); Inner Temple (admitted 1720)
Career:
MP for Abingdon (1722-1741); Recorder of Wallingford (1733); King's Brewer (1740-death); Treasurer of the Foundling Hospital (1744)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election01/11/1722
RelationshipsSon of William Hucks of Wallingford, Berkshire; married Sarah, daughter of Henry Coghill of Pennes Place, Aldenham
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; Venn; Sedgwick
References:
'Gentleman's Magazine' 1745, p668
Notes:
Proposed by Sir Conrad Joachim Sprengwell
CodeNA5651
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
CMO/2/305Minutes of a meeting of the Council of the Royal Society1 November 1722
MC/28/100Letter from John A Gibbs, 22 Bishopsgate, E.C, to the [Royal Society]17 February 1913
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