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Authorised form of nameWalker; William (- 1742)
Dates - 1742
Date of death14 October 1742
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election09/02/1738
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
References:
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:
Main source quoted by BR index is Genealogies of Rhode Island families (1983, v.2). Walker died at Narragansett, Rhode Island (source; register of St Paul's Church, N., quoted in 1983 above, v.2, 272-273)
CodeNA6797
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
MS/391/28Bond of William Walker to the Treasurer of the Royal Society15 June 1738
EC/1737/16Walker, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society9 February 1738
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