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Authorised form of nameShaw; Thomas (1694 - 1751)
Dates1694 - 1751
NationalityBritish
Place of birthKendal, Westmoreland, England
Date of birth04 June 1694
Date of death15 August 1751
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Bramley church, Hampshire
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election13/06/1734
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
References:
Raymond Phineas Stearns, 'Fellows of the Royal Society in North Africa and the Levant, 1662-1800' in NR 1954-55 vol 11 pp 75-90
R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 1. 1731-1847' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 307-332
CodeNA1114
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
RBO/14/121'A particular Description of the Kingdom of Tunis' in letters to Sir Hans Sloane by Reverend Thomas Shaw 1730
RBO/15/29Observations of travels from Hamamet to Agar by Thomas Shaw in his letter to Hans Sloane1730
EC/1734/06Shaw, Thomas: certificate of election to the Royal Society13 June 1734
RBO/15/25'An Essay towards the present State of Algiers by the Reverend Mr Thomas Shaw in a Letter to Sir Hans Sloane'1730
EL/S2/53Letter, from Thomas Shaw to G Kalne, dated at Algiers1 August 1723
RBO/15/72'Continuation of the Description of the Kingdom of Algier' by Thomas Shaw, Chaplain to the British Factory at Algier1731
RBO/14/74Concerning a geographical description of the kingdom of Tunis with a postscript relating to the cure of intermittent fevers by Thomas Shaw, Chaplain to the English Factory at Algiers1729
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