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Authorised form of nameGorst; Sir; John Eldon (1835 - 1916)
Dates1835 - 1916
NationalityBritish
Place of birthPreston, Lancashire, England
Date of birth24 May 1835
Place of deathLondon
Date of death04/04/1916
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Castle Combe, Wiltshire
ActivityHonours:
Kt 1885
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election17/12/1896
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
References:
Vanity Fair 31 July 1889, 30 November 1893 (group)
CodeNA4860
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1896/29Gorst, Sir John Eldon: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/17/610Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons[25 November 1898]
NLB/17/181Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Everard W Wylde, Foreign Office9 August 1898
NLB/17/295Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir John Eldon Gorst, Fellow of the Royal Society5 October 1898
NLB/17/421Copy letter from Michael Foster, to The Marquis of Salisbury [Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil], Arthur James Balfour, Joseph Chamberlain, George Joachim Goschen, Sir John Eldon Gorst, the Duke of Devonshire [Spencer Compton Cavendish], the Earl of Halsbury [Hardinge Stanley Giffard], and Viscount Richard Assheton Cross27 October 1898
NLB/23/1/556Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir John Eldon Gorst, Fellow of the Royal Society, Queen Anne's Mansions, St James's' Park, S.W.2 December 1901
NLB/35/40Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Sir John Gorst, Fellow of the Royal Society]9 April 1907
NLB/53/79Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison]; to unknown correspondent5 April 1916
NLB/53/185Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Larmor, FRS22 May 1916
NLB/17/151Copy letter from Michael Foster, to the Marquis of Salisbury, Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs27 July 1898
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