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Authorised form of nameArcher; William (1830 - 1897)
Dates1830 - 1897
NationalityBritish
Place of birthMagherahamlet, County Down
Date of birth 06 May 1830
Place of death52 Lower Mount Street, Dublin, Ireland
Date of death14 August 1897
Research fieldNatural history
Microscopy
ActivityCareer:
Secretary, Dublin Microscopical Club; Secretary, Victoria Slate Company (Limited); Librarian, National Library of Ireland (1877-1895)
Memberships:
MRIA
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election03/06/1875
RelationshipsEldest son of Rev Richard Archer, vicar of Clonduff, and his wife Jane Matilda, daughter of Watkins William Verling of Dublin; unmarried
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1897-1898 vol 62 pp xl-xlii signed by W T T D
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/42145067077466630953
CodeNA6440
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1875/16Archer, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/3/396Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Valentine Ball, Fellow of the Royal Society30 May 1889
NLB/3/449Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to William Archer, Fellow of the Royal Society13 June 1889
NLB/6/250Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to William Archer, Fellow of the Royal Society, National Library of Ireland, Dublin31 March 1892
NLB/7/339Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Wiliam Archer, Fellow of the Royal Society24 January 1893
NLB/15/365Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Miss Maud E Florac, 52 Lower Mount Street, Dublin 26 August 1897
NLB/9/490Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to William Archer, Fellow of the Royal Society, National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin28 May 1894
NLB/15/388Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons10 September 1897
NLB/15/414Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Miss Maude E Florac, 52 Lower Mount Street, Dublin25 September 1897
MC/12/210Letter from Wm [William] Archer, Librarian of the National Library of Ireland, Science and Art Department, Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]22 October 1881
MC/10/269Letter from Wm [William] Archer, St Brendan's Grosvenor-Road East, Rathmines, Dublin, to Professor G G [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society15 June 1875
MC/10/343Letter from Wm [William] Archer, St Brendan's, Grosvenor-Road, Rathmines, Dublin, to W [Walter] White, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, London2 February 1876
MC/10Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal SocietyJuly 1873-1876
MC/11/227Letter from Wm [William] Archer, St Brendan's, Grosvenor Road, Rathmines, Dublin, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society], London17 June 1878
MC/11Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1877-1879
MC/12Volume 12 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1880-1883
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