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Authorised form of nameRussell; William (1713 - 1787)
Dates1713 - 1787
ActivityCareer:
Secretary to the Levant Company
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election09/01/1777
RelationshipsSon of John Russell by his second wife; brother of Alexander Russell FRS (1756), half-brother of Patrick Russell FRS (1777).
OtherInfoMemoirs of the life and writings of Patrick Russell MD FRS European Magazine and London Review 59, p.3 has footnotes briefly outlining the subject's family - including his [elder] half brother 'William,[Russell] secretary to the Levant Company, F.R.S. Treasurer to the R.S. (Mulgrave's Voyage to the North Pole, p. 97. Bruce's Travels, Introd. pp. vii. lix. lxii )'
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
CodeNA5207
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
AB/1/2/1/71Letter to James West from William Russell13 December 1764
AB/1/2/1/16Receipt for transfer of £500 of Reduced Annuities, £448 2s 6d received31 January 1759
EC/1776/21Russell, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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