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Authorised form of nameBaldwin; Roger (c 1717 - 1801)
Datesc 1717 - 1801
NationalityBritish
Place of birthWigan, Lancashire, England
Date of birthc 1717
Place of deathAldingham, Lancashire
Date of death28 August 1801
OccupationClergyman, Church of England; Physician
Research fieldAgriculture
Gardening
ActivityEducation:
Wigan School; Leyden (studied medicine); Peterhouse, Cambridge, BA (1741-2), MA (1745)
Career:
Fellow of Peterhouse (1743); practised as a physician in Cambridge, then in Wigan; Perpetual Curate of Ellenbrook, Lancashire (1746-7); Rector of Aldingham, Lancashire (1760-1801); Prebendary of Carlisle (1764); Vicar of Edenhall, Cumberland (1774-1801); Chaplain to the Duke of Portland
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election18/12/1760
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; Venn
CodeNA7076
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1760/15Baldwin, Roger: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/24/195Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Baldwin Bent, Heysham Tower, Lancashire20 March 1902
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