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Authorised form of nameJekyll; Joseph (1754 - 1837)
Dates1754 - 1837
Date of birth01 January 1754
Place of death22 New Street, Spring Gardens, London
Date of death08 March 1837
OccupationBarrister
ActivityEducation:
Westminster School; Lincoln's Inn (entered 1769); Christ Church, Oxford. BA (1774); MA (1777)
Career:
Called to the Bar (1778); MP, Colne (1787-1818); contributed to 'Morning Chronicle' and 'Evening Statesman'; KC; Solicitor General to the Prince of Wales (1805); Commissioner in Lunacy (1815); Master-in-Chancery
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election03/06/1790
RelationshipsSon of Edward Jekyll, Captain RN. Married (20 August 1801) Maria, daughter of Hans Sloane MP; father of Joseph Jekyll (FRS 1834)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
CodeNA6973
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1790/07Jekyll, Joseph: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/002417Jekyll, Josephnd
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