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Authorised form of nameBattine; William (1765 - 1836)
Dates1765 - 1836
NationalityBritish
Place of birthEast Morden, Sussex, England
Date of birth25 January 1765
Place of deathFitzroy place, Surrey
Date of death05 September 1836
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Church of St George the Martyr, Southwark
OccupationBarrister
ActivityEducation:
Trinity Hall, Cambridge. LLB (1780); LLD (1780)
Career:
Admitted Fellow of the College of Doctors of Law, London (1785); built up a large practice in Ecclesiastical and Admiralty courts; Gentleman of the Privy Chamber in ordinary (1812-1827); Advocate General, High Court of the Admiralty; Chancellor of the diocese of Lincoln; published a poem called 'Another Cain'.
Freemason, initiated and passed, 26 November 1787, Somerset House Lodge No 2, [now Royal Somerset House and Inverness Lodge no 4]
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election01/06/1797
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Freemasons and the Royal Society: Alphabetical List of Fellows of the Royal Society who were Masons' Library and Museum of Freemasonr, 2010 page 8
CodeNA3021
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1797/09Battine, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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