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Authorised form of namePitcairn; William (1711 - 1791)
Dates1711 - 1791
NationalityBritish
Place of birthDysart, Fife, Scotland
Date of birth1711
Place of deathIslington, London
Date of death25 November 1791
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Vault in church of St Bartholomew the Less, within the hospital walls, London
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election10/05/1770
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
CodeNA1018
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
L&P/9/196Letter, 'Experiments on human calculi' from Timothy Lane to William Pitcairn10 March 1791
DM/3/152Report by the Peruvian Bark Committee12 June 1782
EC/1770/08Pitcairn, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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