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Authorised form of nameBeckett; William (1684 - 1738)
Other forms of surnameBecket
Dates1684 - 1738
NationalityBritish
Place of birthHis sister's house in Abingdon, Berkshire, England
Date of birth1684
Place of deathAbingdon, Berkshire
Date of death25 November 1738
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
St Helen's Church, Abingdon
OccupationAntiquary; Surgeon
ActivityEducation:
Apprenticed to his father and then to Joseph Bateman of St Thomas's Hospital
Career:
Surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital; retired to Abingdon (before 1736); friend of William Stukeley (FRS 1718)
Freemason, member 1723 and 1725, unnamed and unnumbered Lodge at Swan, Ludgate Street, London
Memberships:
FSA (1717)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election11/12/1718
RelationshipsSon of Isaac Beckett, Surgeon, of Abingdon; proposed 1723 as Freemason by William Stukely FRS
PublishedWorks'New discoveries relating to the cure of cancers' 1711 and 1712; Practical Surgery' ; Collection of Chirurgical Tracts'
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
'Freemasons and the Royal Society; Alphabetical List of Fellows of the Royal Society who are Masons' The Library and Museum of Freemasonry, 2010 page 9
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/23691214
CodeNA6715
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
MS/390/173Bond of William Beckett to the Treasurer of the Royal Society18 December 1718
CLP/13/15Paper, 'Account of three long lived persons' by Mr [William] Beckett[1722]
CLP/12ii/9Paper, 'Of a luxated shoulder reduced by a newly improved machine' by Mr Becket [William Beckett?][1723]
CLP/14ii/19Letter, 'Some remarks upon the observation mentioned in the foregoing letter' from William Beckett to the Royal Society1724
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