Authorised form of name | Massey; Richard Myddleton (c 1678 - 1743) |
Dates | c 1678 - 1743 |
Nationality | British |
Place of death | Rostherne, Cheshire |
Date of death | 27 March 1743 |
DatesAndPlaces | Burial: The chancel of Rostherne church, Cheshire |
Occupation | Physician |
Activity | Education: Brasenose College, Oxford (matriculated 1697); Aberdeen. DMed (1720) Career: Practised in Wisbech, Isle of Ely (1706-1720), and Stepney, Middlesex (from 1720); retired to Rostherne; one of the Keepers of the Ashmolean Museum; a Nonjuror Memberships: FSA (1718); Extra-Licentiate RCP (1706); Hon FRCP (1726)
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Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 23/10/1712 |
RSActivity | Royal Society roles: Council (1727) |
Relationships | Son of Edward Massey of Rostherne and his wife, Elizabeth Bowles |
Source | Sources: Foster; Munk's Roll Obituaries: Gentleman's Magazine (1743), p217 Notes: Proposed by Sir Hans Sloane. Foster gives age on matriculation as 15, age at death as 65 |
Code | NA5473 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNo | Title | Date |
LBO/14/87 | Copy letter from Richard Massey of Wisbich to Hans Sloane | 18 September 1708 |
CLP/22ii/60 | Paper, Account of [Johannes Philippus] Breynius' physical dissertation of a new class of shell called 'Polythalamiis, nova Testaceorum classe' by Richard Middleton Massey | 1733 |
CLP/22ii/50 | Paper, Account of [Johannes Philippus] Breynius' 'Historia naturalis Cocci Radicum Tinctorii quod Polonicum vulgo audit' by Richard Middleton Massey | nd |