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Authorised form of nameRickman; John (1771 - 1840)
Dates1771 - 1840
NationalityBritish
Place of birthNewburn, Northumberland, England
Date of birth22 August 1771
Date of death11 August 1840
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
St Margaret's, Westminster
ActivityEducation:
Magdalen College, Oxford; Lincoln College, Oxford. BA
Career:
Went to Dublin with Charles Abbot (FRS 1793) (1801); returned to London as Abbot's secretary and prepared the first Census Act; 2nd Clerk Assistant at the table of the House of Commons (1814); Clerk Assistant (!814-1840); prepared annual abstracts of poor law returns (1816-1836); died of a throat infection
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election27/04/1815
RelationshipsSon of Rev Thomas Rickman
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1840 No 45 pp 261-262
CodeNA5716
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
IM/003824Rickman, John1831
EC/1815/17Rickman, John: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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