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Authorised form of nameTufnell; George Foster (1723 - 1788)
Dates1723 - 1788
Date of birth1723
Date of death10 July 1788
ActivityCareer:
Colonel of East Middlesex Militia; MP for Beverley (1762 and 1774)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election20/04/1758
RelationshipsSon of Samuel Tufnell (FRS 1710) and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of George Cressener; married 1) (11 February 1744) Elizabeth Foster, marriage dissolved by Act of Parliament 1758; 2) Mary Farnhill of Chichester
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
CodeNA3318
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1758/01Tufnell, George Foster: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MS/391/66Bond of George Forster Tufnell to the Treasurer of the Royal Society11 May 1748
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