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Authorised form of nameGell; Sir; William (1777 - 1836)
Dates1777 - 1836
Date of birth1777
Place of deathHis villa in Naples, Italy
Date of death04 February 1836
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
The English burial-ground, Naples, Italy
ActivityEducation:
Jesus College, Cambridge. BA (1798), MA (1804)
Career:
Fellow, Emmanuel College, Cambridge; visited the Troad and established the site of Troy (1804); accompanied Princess (later Queen) Caroline to Italy (1814) and gave evidence at her tiral (1820); lived in Italy (from 1820); visited by Sir Walter Scott (1832)
Honours:
Kt 1803
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election16/04/1807
RelationshipsSon of Philip Gell of Hopton, Debyshire
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1836 No 27 pp 438-439
Notes:
He is entered as 'Sir William' in DNB, but there is no mention of when he acquired his knighthood. In both index to BR and R he is simply 'William Gell'. In BR, however, he is indeed 'Sir William Gell' and his knighthood is attributed to the year 1803.
CodeNA4525
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
MM/21/100Letter from William Gell to Dr Clarke, Jesus College, Cambridge1802
EC/1807/01Gell, Sir William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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