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Authorised form of nameWilkins; William (1778 - 1839)
Dates1778 - 1839
NationalityBritish
Place of birthNorwich, Norfolk, England
Date of birth31 August 1778
Place of deathAt his residence 'Lensfield' Cambridge
Date of death31 August 1839
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Under the sacrarium of the chapel of Corpus Christi, Cambridge
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election02/06/1831
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1839 No 40 pp 176-177
CodeNA643
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
NLB/15/457Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr John Venn, Fellow of the Royal Society7 October 1897
NLB/15/438Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr John Venn, Fellow of the Royal Society4 October 1897
EC/1831/17Wilkins, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
L&P/10/97Letters, 'An appearance of light like a star, seen in the dark part of the moon, 7 March 1794' from William Wilkins to Nevil Maskelyne17 April 1794
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