| Authorised form of name | Slare; Frederick (c1647 - 1727); chemist and physician |
| Other forms of surname | Slear |
| Dates | c1647 - 1727 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Northamptonshire, England, Europe |
| Date of birth | c 1647 |
| Date of death | 12 September 1727 |
| Dates and places | Baptism:
Old, Northamptonshire, England, Europe (early 1648)
Burial:
In the cemetery adjoining Greenwich churchyard, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Research field | Chemistry |
| Activity | Education:
Utrecht; MD (1679); Incorporated at Oxford (1680); Incorporated at Cambridge (1681)
Career:
Worked under Robert Boyle (FRS 1663) as an amanuensis and in his laboratory (1670s); Practised in London; retired to Bath (1715)
Memberships:
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (1685); Society for the Propagation of the Gospel |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 16/12/1680 |
| Proposer | Theodore Haak |
| Royal Society activity | Royal Society roles:
Council 1682, 1684, 1687-1688, 1690, 1693, 1699; Chemistry Curator (1683) |
| Other Royal Society activity | Demonstrated his experiments with phosphorous substances (1683; 1685);
Had a variety of papers on chemistry published in the 'Philosophical Transactions' (1680s-1690s) |
| Relationships | Parents: Frederick Schloer and Anna Malory
Siblings: Jane Slare
Additional relatives: father's cousin Theodore Haak (FRS 1663) |
| Published works | RCN: R63781
RCN: R63778 |
| General context | Slare's work with Robert Boyle (FRS 1663) involved phosphorescent substances, contributing to Boyle's publication on the matter in 1680. His particular research focus was the application of chemical theory to physiology and medicine and he also showed an interest in the therapeutic effects of mineral waters. His book 'An Account of the Pyrmont Waters' (1717) was written on this topic.
Slare was a member of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG). SPG was formed in 1701 and was a Church of England missionary organisation aiming to establish new churches in colonised regions, limiting the influence of, for example, Quakers and converting Native Americans and free and enslaved Africans and African Americans to Christianity. |
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| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Hunter; Foster; Innes Smith; ODNB
References:
Boas Hall, M. 1992. 'Frederick Slare, FRS (1648-1727), in Notes and Records, vol. 46, pp. 23-41 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/120836054 |
| Royal Society code | NA4607 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EL/S2/40 | Frederick Slare to Hans Sloane | nd |
| RBO/7/45 | 'An Account of a Ruminateing Man lately liveing at Bristol' given to the Royal Society by Frederick Slare | nd |
| RBO/7/66 | Tables showing the numbers of marriages, christenings, burials in 1695 in Frankfurt on the Maine by Frederick Slare | 1695 |
| RBO/6/83 | 'Dr Slare's Observations about the Smelling Water at Hogsdon' | 1685 |
| RBO/6/1 | 'A Discourse about the Calculus Humanus' made by Frederick Slare | 12 December 1683 |
| RBO/6/7 | 'Experiments about Freezing' by Frederick Slare | nd |
| RBO/6/84 | Account by Frederick Slare | 1685 |
| RBO/6/82 | 'A short Account of some Experiments made with Saliva Humana' by Frederick Slare | 18 November 1685 |
| CLP/23ii/71 | Letter, from Dr [Frederick] Slare | 7 June 1727 |
| RBO/6/61 | 'Dr Slare's Discovery of an uncommon Concrete found in the Distillation of Vegetables' | 25 February 1684 |
| IM/004216 | Slare, Frederick | 1995 |
| LBO/16/33 | Copy letter from Frederick Slare, Bath, to Hans Sloane | 10 February 1713/1714 |
| LBO/15/10 | Copyletter from Frederick Slare, Bath, to Hans Sloane | 15 June 1713 |
| CLP/22i/27 | Paper, Account of 'Chrysaejae magister' by Frederick Slare | 17th century |
| CLP/11ii/12 | Paper, 'Remarks lately publish'd in Germany by an anonimous [sic] author concerning Pyrmont waters in answer to a treatise wrote by Dr Slare' by unknown author | 1726 |
| RBO/6/81 | 'Dr Slare Experiments made on the Mineral Kobalt in Order to the discovering the Nature of Zaffer' | 15 July 1685 |
| CLP/11i/24 | Paper, regarding a chemical analysis of urine of a healthy man by Dr [Frederick] Slare | [1683] |
| CLP/11i/25 | Paper, 'Experiments' by Dr [Frederick] Slare | [1683] |
| CLP/9i/37 | Paper, 'Experiments of Dr Slare' by [Frederick] Slare | 25 April 1683 |
| CLP/9i/38 | Paper, 'Experiments of Irish slate' by Dr [Frederick] Slare | 1680s |
| CLP/4i/46 | Paper, 'Experiments about freezing' read by Dr [Frederick] Slare | 26 March 1684 |
| CLP/11i/34 | Paper, 'A short account of some experiments made with saliva humana' by Frederick Slare | [1680s] |
| CLP/11i/29/1 | Manuscript, 'Of vegetable salts' by Dr [Frederick] Slare | [1685] |
| CLP/11i/23 | Paper, 'The analogy betwixt lightning and the phosphorus under water' by Dr [Frederick] Slare | nd |
| CLP/11i/29/2 | Plate, uncommon concrete by [Frederick Slare] | [1685] |
| CLP/11i/29 | Paper, 'Of vegetable salts' by Dr [Frederick] Slare | [1685] |
| CLP/11i/26 | Paper, 'About the volatile salt of humn [human] blood and the bark' by Dr [Frederick] Slare | [1683] |
| CLP/11i/30 | Paper, 'The qualifications necessary to make a body volatile taken out of Mr [Robert] Boyle's mechanical origine of volatility' by Dr [Frederick] Slare | [1680s] |
| CLP/11i/33 | Paper, 'A farther triall of the said stones by chymicall distillation' by [Frederick Slare] | [1687] |
| CLP/11i/35 | Paper, 'On the zaffora' by Frederick Slare | [1685] |
| EL/F2/5 | George Francus, dated at Wittenberg, to Frederick Slare | 1694 |
| CLP/11i/32 | Paper, 'A short examen of the stones sent the R [Royal] Society from Boarne, whereof an account is given in the last Transaction' by Frederick Slare | [1686] |
| CLP/11i/22 | Paper, 'Of oyl of vitr [vitriol]' by Dr [Frederick] Slare | 1683 |
| EL/S2/37 | Frederick Slare, dated at Bath, to Hans Sloane | 10 February 1714 |
| EL/S2/36 | Frederick Slare, dated at Bath, to Hans Sloane | 15 June 1713 |
| EL/W3/61 | Wincler, Chief Physician to the Prince Palatine, to Frederick Slare | 22 December 1682 |
| CLP/11i/39 | Paper, 'An experiment made before the President and fellows of the Royal Society in which a surprizeing change of color from a pale transparent or clear liquor to a very blew ceruleous one was exhibited, and that in an instant, by the admission of aire only: applyd to illustrate some changes of colour, and other effects on the blood of respiring animals' by Fr [Frederick] Slare | [1693] |
| RBO/6/11 | Experiments by Frederick Slare | 28 March 1683 |
| CLP/15i/42 | Paper, 'An account of an upupa, or hoopoe' by Dr [Frederick] Slare | September 1691 |