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Authorised form of nameGraham; Richard (1693 - 1749)
Dates1693 - 1749
NationalityBritish
Date of birth08 March 1693
Date of death08 May 1749
ActivityEducation:
Merchant Taylors' School, London; Trinity College, Cambridge (admitted 1709); Inner Temple (admitted 1710)
Career:
Comptroller of Westminster Bridge; died suddenly
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election17/11/1726
RelationshipsSon of Richard Graham of London
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; Venn
References:
'Gentleman's Magazine' 1749, p236
P Fontes da Costa, 'The Culture of Curiosity at The Royal Society in the first half of the eighteenth century', NR 2002 vo l56 pp 147-166
Notes:
Proposed by Martin Folkes, Oliver St John
CodeNA5802
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
RBO/18/53Richard Graham's explanation of how a man could move a stone weighing 800 pounds using a frame communicated by John Desaguliers1733
CLP/3ii/34Paper, 'Description and use of an improv'd aequinochial dial' by Richard Graham1731
RBO/17/7'Description and Use of an improv'd equinoctial Dial for shewing the hour by the Sun or any of the Stars, with great Exactness Contrived and finish'd Anno 1727 by Richard Graham'1731
CLP/8ii/32/2Figures, an instrument for taking the latitude of a place at any time of the day by Richard Graham1731
CLP/8ii/32Paper, regarding a description and use of an instrument for taking the latitude of a place at any time of the day by Richard Graham1731
CLP/8ii/32/1Manuscript, regarding a description and use of an instrument for taking the latitude of a place at any time of the day by Richard Graham1731
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