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RefNoEC/1749/10
Previous numbersCert I, 362; A55800
LevelItem
TitleWilliamson, John: certificate of election to the Royal Society
Date15 June 1749
CitationThe Revd Mr John Williamson,
newly appointed Chaplain to the English Factory at Lisbon, desiring to offer himself a Candidate for election into this Royal Society; we do hereby propose him, and upon our own personal acquaintance recommend him, as a Gentleman of distinguished merit particularly esteemed by us, and one eminently skilled in Mathematical & philosophical Learning, as well as in most other branches of that knowledge for the promoting of which this Society was founded, of which we doubt not but he will approve himself a usefull and a Valuable Brother.
ProposersStanhope; M Folkes; P Davall; Benjn Robins
AccessStatusOpen
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Williamson, John: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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CodePersonNameDates
NA8031Williamson; John (1713 - 1763)1713 - 1763
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