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Authorised form of nameLightfoot; John (1735 - 1788)
Dates1735 - 1788
NationalityBritish
Place of birthNewent, Gloucestershire, England
Date of birth09 December 1735
Place of deathUxbridge, Middlesex
Date of death20 February 1788
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Cowley, Middlesex
ActivityEducation:
BA (1756) MA (1766) Pembroke College, Oxford
Career:
Chaplain and librarian to the Dowager Duchess of Portland; curate, Colnbrook, Buckinghamshire; curate, Uxbridge
Memberships:
FLS
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election08/03/1781
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
CodeNA2677
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1780/22Lightfoot, John: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CB/1/4/262Letter from John Lightfoot, Uxbridge to Charles Blagden, at Sir Joseph Banks, Soho Square, London2 January 1785
L&P/8/167Paper, 'Of certain minute British shells' by John Lightfoot13 May 1785
L&P/8/104/1Letter, 'Of a bird hithero unrecognized as English' from John Lightfoot to Joseph Banks20 November 1783
L&P/8/167/1Letter, 'Of certain minute British shells' from John Lightfoot to Joseph Banks13 May 1785
L&P/8/104Paper, 'Of a bird hithero unrecognized as English' by John Lightfoot20 November 1783
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