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Authorised form of nameSprat; Thomas (1679 - 1720)
Dates1679 - 1720
Date of birth05 April 1679
Date of death10 May 1720
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Westminster Abbey
OccupationClergyman, Church of England
ActivityEducation:
Westminster School; Christ Church, Oxford; BA (1701), MA (1704), incorporated at Cambridge (1715); Middle Temple (admitted 1700)
Career:
Ordained deacon and priest (1704); Chaplain to his father (1704); Prebendary and Archdeacon of Rochester (1704-1720); Vicar of Boxley, Kent (1705-1720); Rector of Stone, Kent (1707-1720); Chaplain to Queen Anne (1712-1714); Chaplain to George I (1714-1717); Canon of Winchester (1712-1720); Canon of Westminster (1713-1720)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election20/03/1712
ProposerJohn Keill
RelationshipsSon of Thomas Sprat, Bishop of Rochester (FRS 1663), and his wife, Helen, daughter of Devereaux Wolseley of Ravenstone, Staffordshire, and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Zouch, Kt, of Codnor Castle, Derbyshire
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; Venn; Foster; Thomas; DNB (father's entry); MT; Barker
References:
Neil Chambers, 'Letters From the President: the Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks' in NR 1999 vol 53 pp 27-57
Marie Boas Hall, 'The Early Years of the Royal Society', review of Michael Hunter, Establishing the New Science: the Experience of the Early Royal Society in NR 1990 vol 44 pp 265-268
Christopher Hill, 'The Intellectual Origins of the Royal Society - London or Oxford?' in NR 1968 vol 23 pp 144-156
Douglas McKie, 'The Origins and Foundation of the Royal Society of London' in NR 1960 vol 15 pp 1-37
A D Atkinson, 'The Royal Society and English Vocabulary' in NR 1956-57 vol 12 pp 40-43
CodeNA6033
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
MS/390/147Bond of Thomas Sprat to the Treasurer of the Royal Society27 March 1712
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