Record

Authorised form of nameDavall; Peter (- 1763)
Dates - 1763
Date of death08 January 1763
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election23/10/1740
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
Sec 1747-1759; VP 1759-1762
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
References:
R K Bluhm, 'Remarks on the Royal Society's Finances, 1660-1768' in NR 1958 vol 13 pp 82-103
CodeNA6803
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1740/07Davall, Peter: certificate of election to the Royal Society23 October 1740
AB/1/2/1/20Order that Peter Davall advance £50 to Reverend Maskelyne out of the money lately granted to the Society by his Majesty 14 July 1760
AB/1/2/1/54Peter Davall's Account with the Royal SocietyJuly - October 1762
AB/1/2/3/28Receipt for interest on Royal Society's stock received by Hauksbee from Peter Davall23 April 1760
AB/1/2/1/29Mr Davall's account with the Royal Society29 November 1760
AB/1/2/1/31Receipt for £51 received from Peter Davall being half a year's dividend on £3400 three per cent Bank Annuities by Francis Hauksbee17 August 1761
AB/1/2/1/48Letter to Mr Davall from Mr Rucker advising him that he has settled the Exchange of the Bill with Mr Berens23 July 1762
AB/1/2/1/30Mr Davall's account with the Royal Society29 November 1760
AB/1/2/1/50The Council of the Royal Society Debtor to the Reverend Nevil Maskelyne1762
AB/1/2/1/21Receipt for £45 received from Mr Davall for half a year's dividend on £3000 being the Royal Society's stock in the three per cent reduced annuities19 October 1760
AB/1/2/1/55Unsigned copy of Peter Davall's Account with the Royal SocietyJuly - November 1762
AB/1/2/1/26Bill for John Dollond19 December 1760
AB/1/2/1/24Order of Council to Mr Peter Davall to pay Mr Robert Waddington or the bearer the sum of £35 out of the money belonging to the Royal Society in his hands20 November 1760
AB/1/2/1/28Order of Council That Peter Davall Esq, VP pay into the hands of the Treasurer, the Balance now remaining in his hands of the money received by Him at the Exchequer in consequence of his late Majesty's warrant21 January 1761
MM/3/92Letter from de Saint Jacques Silvabelle, Marseilles, to Peter Davall16 January 1752
AB/1/2/1/47Bill of Nevil Maskelyne21 July 1762
L&P/2/392Letter, 'On M. Daran's bougie having been anticipated (with letters from John Ruding (surgeon) and a patient. Thomas Reynolds' from James Wallace to Peter Davall21 December 1752
L&P/2/531Paper, 'An account of J Robertson's 'Elements of navigation'' by Peter Davall1754
L&P/2/428Letter, 'Of Baulinia seeds' from Philip Miller to Peter Davall3 March 1753
AB/1/2/1/45Letter from Peter Davall to Dr [Charles] Morton at the British Museum2 July 1762
MM/10/123'Account of moneys apportioned for 29 November 1760 for the expenses of the observations', by Peter Davall22 July 1760
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