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Authorised form of nameGodman; Frederick Du Cane (1834 - 1919)
Dates1834 - 1919
Date of birth15 January 1834
Date of death19/02/1919
Research fieldOrnithology
ActivityCareer:
Trustee, British Museum
Memberships:
FLS; FGS; MES
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election08/06/1882
RelationshipsSon of J Godman of Park Hatch, Surrey. Married: 1) Edith Mary, sister of Henry John Elwes (FRS 1897) (she died 1875); 2) Alice Mary, daughter of Major Percy Chaplin
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1919-1920 vol 91 pp i-vi, plate, signed by H J E
CodeNA5502
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
NLB/9/25Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons14 March 1894
NLB/10/879Copy letter from Dr Michael Foster, to Frederick Du Cane Godman and Osbert Salvin, Fellows of the Royal Society22 February 1895
NLB/52/501Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Frederick Du Cane Godman Esquire3 January 1916
NLB/18/819Copy letter from Michael Foster, to [F D] Godman19 May 1899
NLB/20/401Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Frederick Du Cane Godman, Fellow of the Royal Society6 April 1900
NLB/21/277Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Frederick Du Cane Godman, Fellow of the Royal Society, Inchrory Lodge, Banffshire, North Britain17 October 1900
NLB/32/124Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Messrs Harrison & Sons]9 January 1906
NLB/36/179Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Frederick Du Cane Godman, Fellow of the Royal Society, Inchrory Lodge, Tomintoul, Banffshire, North Britain3 September 1907
NLB/35/287Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Frederick Du Cane Godman, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Evolution Committee13 May 1907
NLB/40/811Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to F [Frederick] D [Du Cane] Godman FRS 30 August 1909
NLB/42/27Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to F [Frederick] D [Du Cane] Godman FRS 9 March 1910
NLB/42/343Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr F [Frederick] D [Du Cane] Godman FRS 27 May 1910
NLB/48/424Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Frederick] Du Cane Godman, Fellow of the Royal Society4 July 1913
NLB/54/171Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Frederick du Cane] Godman Esquire, FRS23 February 1917
NLB/56/486Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Messrs Harrison & Sons]21 February 1919
NLB/57/242Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to HJ [Henry John] Elwes, Esq. FRS25 September 1919
NLB/55/940Copy letter from [Joseph John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to [Frederick] Du Cane Godman Esq., FRS31 October 1918
NLB/65/82Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Sidney [Frederic] Harmer, KBE, FRS25 July 1923
EC/1882/13Godman, Frederick Du Cane: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/57New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration27 June 1919-27 February 1920
MC/17Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1897-1899
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