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Authorised form of nameLong; Roger (1680 - 1770)
Dates1680 - 1770
NationalityBritish
Place of birthCroxton Park, Norfolk, England
Date of birth02 February 1680
Date of death16 December 1770
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Trinity College, Cambridge
OccupationClergyman, Church of England
Research fieldAstronomy
ActivityEducation:
Norwich School; Pembroke College, Cambridge. BA (1701), MA (1704), DD (1728)
Career:
Fellow of Pembroke (1703); Private tutor to Sir Wolston Dixie at Emmanuel College (1704); Ordained deacon and priest (1716); Rector of Orton Waterville, Huntingdonshire (1716-1751); Vicar of Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire (1729); Master of Pembroke (1733-17790); Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge (1733-1734); Lowndean Professor of Astronomy (1750-1770); Rector of Bradwell-near-the-Sea, Essex (1751); Vice-Chancellor of Oxford (1769); benefactor of Pembroke College
Memberships:
Spalding Society
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election08/05/1729
ProposerGeorge Graham
William Rutty
John Theophilus Desaguliers
RelationshipsSon of Thomas Long, gent, of Croxton, Norfolk
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Venn
References:
A Rupert Hall, 'Cambridge: Newton's legacy' in NR 2001 vol 55 pp 205-226
Mari Williams, 'James Bradley and the Eighteenth Century "Gap" in Attempts to Measure Annual Stellar Parallax' in NR 1982-83 vol 37 pp 83-100
Obituary, Gentleman's Magazine (1770), p591
L B Glyn, 'Israel Lyons: a short but starry career. The life of an eighteenth-century Jewish botanist and astronomer' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 275-305
Notes:
First proposer's identity likely, but not certain
CodeNA4976
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
IM/002795Long, Rogernd
L&P/2/237Letter, 'Of comets as described in a MS in Pembroke Hall library, Cambridge' from Richard Dunthorne to Roger Long5 October 1751
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