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Authorised form of nameBeaufoy; Henry Benjamin Hanbury (1786 - 1851)
Dates1786 - 1851
Date of birth1786
Date of death12 July 1851
Research fieldPhysics
ActivityCareer:
Wine merchant, South Lambeth and inherited the business from his father; carried out experiments with rifled barrels; printed details of experiments made at Greenland Dock, London 1793-1798 at his own expense (1834)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election14/12/1815
RelationshipsSon of Mark Beaufoy (FRS 1790)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
CodeNA3304
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1815/05Beaufoy, Henry Benjamin Hanbury: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/68/496Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to H. W. Gregory Esq.; 50 Crooms Hill, Greenwich, S.E.17 July 1925
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