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Authorised form of nameRees; Abraham (1743 - 1825)
Dates1743 - 1825
NationalityBritish
Place of birthLlanbrynmair, Montgomeryshire, Wales
Date of birth1743
Place of deathArtillery Place, Finsbury, London
Date of death09 June 1825
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Bunhill Fields, London
ActivityEducation:
Coward's Academy, Well Close, Cable Street, London; DD (1775, Edinburgh)
Career:
Assistant Tutor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, Coward's Academy (1762); Resident Tutor when the Academy moved to Hoxton (1762- 1785); Tutor in Hebrew and Mathematics, Hackney College (1786-1796); Assistant Independent Congregational Minister, Clapham; Assistant Prebyterian Minister, St Thomas' Southwark (1768); Pastor, St Thomas' Southwark (1774); Pastor, Old Jewry Congregation (1783 to his death); edited the Cyclopaedia of Ephraim Chambers (1778-1786); published 'New Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences' (1802-1820)
Memberships:
FLS; American Society
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election01/06/1786
RelationshipsSon of Lewis Rees and his wife Esther, daughter of Abraham Penry; married, had children
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
CodeNA7265
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/003768Rees, Abrahamnd
EC/1778/06Rees, Abraham: certificate of election to the Royal Society
EC/1786/13Rees, Abraham: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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