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Authorised form of nameLethieullier; Smart (1701 - 1760)
Other forms of surnameLethiullier
Dates1701 - 1760
NationalityBritish
Date of birth03 November 1701
Place of deathAldersbrook, Little Ilford, Essex
Date of death27 August 1760
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Little Ilford church, Essex
OccupationAntiquary
ActivityEducation:
Trinity College, Oxford; MA (1723); Incorporated at Cambridge (1726)
Career:
Formed collections and made drawings of antiquities and English fossils; travelled to Italy; built a small 'hermitage' at Aldersbrook for his collections
Memberships:
FSA; Spalding Society
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election12/03/1724
ProposerWilliam Derham
RelationshipsSon of John Lethieullier, Merchant, of London and Aldersbrook Manor House, Little Ilford, Essex, and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John or Joseph Smart Kt, Woollen Draper of Lombard Street, London and Havering, Kent; married Margaret, daughter of William Sloper of Woodhay, Berkshire; no children
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Venn; Foster; Le Neve
References:
Obituary, Gentleman's Magazine (1760), p394, 443 (Account of Lethieullier's life by Peter Collinson FRS);Obituary, London Magazine (1760), p556
CodeNA5748
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
L&P/2/53Letter, 'Of the Essex steeples (Danbury) struck by lightning' from Smart Lethieullier to Martin Folkes27 February 1750
LBO/24/52Copy letter from Smart Lethieullier, Rome, to the President27 December 1737
L&P/2/51Letter, 'An account of discoveries at Portici' from Smart Lethieullier to Martin Folkes21 February 1750
EL/L6/45Letter, from Smart Lethieullier to Cromwell Mortimer, dated at Bond Street12 July 1734
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