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Authorised form of nameGranville; Augustus Bozzi (1783 - 1872)
Dates1783 - 1872
NationalityItalian
Place of birthMilan, Italy
Date of birth07 October 1783
Place of deathDover, Kent
Date of death03 March 1872
OccupationSurgeon
ActivityEducation:
Milan; MD (1802, Pavia)
Career:
Travelled in Greece, Spain and Portugal; Assistant Surgeon to British Squadron at Lisbon (joined 1807); retired on half pay (1813); worked as translator, interpreter and courier to the Foreign Office; took up study of medicine again, especially interested in midwifery; had a large practice as accoucheur; visited Russia professionally (1827 and 1849); interested in spas, and practised in Kissingen for a part of each year; published 'The Royal Society in the 19th century ...' (1836)
Memberships:
FLS; LCP (1817); MRCP; FGS
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election20/11/1817
RelationshipsSon of Carlo Bozzi, Postmaster General of Milan; took the name of Granville after 1813
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/64131151
CodeNA7466
Archives associated with this Fellow
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MC/2/68Letter from Augustus Bozzi Granville, Grafton Street, to the Royal Society7 January 1833
IM/Maull/001742Granville, Augustus Bozzind
PT/73/11/18Drawings, intestinal tube and uterine system of mummy by Henry PerryJanuary 1822
EC/1817/13Granville, Augustus Bozzi: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MC/2/209Requisition for a Special General Meeting of the Royal Society21 May 1836
MC/1/59Letter from Augustus Bozzi Granville, Saville Row, to William Thomas Brande, Secretary of the Royal Society6 January 1819
PT/12/16/2Plate, enlarged and malformed uterus by unknown artist[1818]
MC/2Volume 2 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1832-1838
MC/2/198Letter from [Augustus Bozzi] Granville, Grafton Street, Berkely [Berkeley] Square, to the Chairman of the Council of the Royal Society26 March 1836
MC/2/208Letter from [the Secretary of the Royal Society] to Dr. Augustus Bozzi Granville19 May 1836
MC/2/206Copy letter from [William] Whewell, Trinity College Cambridge, to Dr. Augustus Bozzi Granville17 May 1836
MC/2/207Letter from Dr. Augustus Bozzi Granville, 16 Grafton Street, Berkeley Square, to [William Whewell], the Chairman of the Council of the Royal Society18 May 1836
MC/2/205Letter from [William] Whewell to John George Children, Secretary of the Royal Society17 May 1836
MC/1Volume 1 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1800-1831
PT/18/1Paper, 'An essay on Egyptian mummies; with observations on the art of embalming among the ancient Egyptians' by A B [Augustus Bozzi] Granville[1825]
PT/73/11/14Paintings, Egyptian sarcophagus and mummy by Henry PerryMarch 1822
PT/73/11/19Drawings, thoracic cavity of mummy by Henry PerryFebruary 1822
PT/73/11/15Painting, unwrapped mummy by Henry PerryNovember 1821
PT/73/11/16Painting, mummy pelvis by Henry PerryDecember 1821
MC/5/110Letter from A B [Augustus Bozzi] Granville, 1 Curzon Street, May Fair, to T [Thomas] Bell, Secretary of the Royal Society18 June 1853
AP/13/9Unpublished paper, 'Note on the chemical composition of two liquids lately proposed as disinfectants of great power; and on the action of those liquids on putrid animal matter' by A B [Augustus Bozzi] Granville20 February 1827
MC/8/416Copy letter from Edward Sabine, [President of the Royal Society], Burlington House, London, to Dr [Augustus Bozzi] Granville2 September 1869
MC/8/418Letter from A B [Augustus Bozzi] Granville, 67 St George's Road, Warwick Square, to Lieutenant General Sir Edward Sabine, President of the Royal Society6 September 1869
MC/8/413Letter from A B [Augustus Bozzi] Granville, 67 St George's Road, Warwick Square, to Lieutenant General Sir Edward Sabine, President of the Royal Society26 August 1869
PT/14/7Paper, 'A case of the human foetus met with in the ovarium of the size it usually acquires at the end of the fourth month' by A B [Augustus Bozzi] Granville in a letter to Sir Everard HomeJune 1819
PT/12/16/1Letter, 'On a malconformation of the uterine system in women; and on some physiological conclusions to be derived from it' from A B [Augustus Bozzi] Granville to Sir E [Everard] Home[1818]
MC/8Volume 8 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1867-1869
PT/12/16Letter, 'On a malconformation of the uterine system in women; and on some physiological conclusions to be derived from it' from A B [Augustus Bozzi] Granville to Sir E [Everard] Home[1818]
PT/73/11/17Drawing, head of mummy by Henry PerryNovember 1821
PT/73/8/5Painting, human uterus and womb by Franz [Andreas] Bauer1819
PT/73/8/6Painting, an unborn child by Franz [Andreas] Bauer1819
MC/5Volume 5 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1851-1858
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