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Authorised form of nameGilbert; John Davies (1811 - 1854)
Dates1811 - 1854
NationalityBritish
Place of birthEastbourne, Sussex, England
Date of birth05 December 1811
Place of deathPrideaux Place, near Padstow, Cornwall
Date of death16 April 1854
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election10/04/1834
RelationshipsSon of Davies Gilbert (FRS 1791); married (1851) Anne Dorothea Carew, daughter of Robert Shapland Carew, 1st Baron Carew of Castleborough, County Wexford
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB (father's entry)
CodeNA5257
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1834/15Gilbert, John Davies: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MDA/A/22/49Letter from Albert C Seward to [John David Griffith] Davies, Knowle Hotel, Sidmouth11 April 1939
MC/4/266Letter from [John Davies] Gilbert, East Bourne [?], to the Royal Society2 December 1848
MS/426/355Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to J D [John Davies] Gilbert Esq2 December 1848
MC/4Volume 4 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1844-1850
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