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Authorised form of nameHolmes; Robert (1748 - 1805)
Dates1748 - 1805
Date of birth30 November 1748
Place of deathHis house in St Giles, Oxford
Date of death12 November 1805
DatesAndPlacesBaptism:
St Martin's-in-the-Fields, London (30 November 1748)
OccupationClergyman, Church of England
ActivityEducation:
Winchester College; New College, Oxford. BA (1770); MA (1774); BD (1787); DD (1789)
Career:
Bampton Lecturer (at Oxford) (1782); Prebendary of Lyme and Halstock in Salisbury Cathedral (1790); Dean of Winchester (1804); Biblical scholar
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election14/12/1797
RelationshipsSon of Edmund Holmes
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
CodeNA7234
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1797/17Holmes, Robert: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MS/391/241Bond of Robert Holmes to the Treasurer of the Royal Society15 February 1798
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