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Authorised form of nameHarris; Samuel (1682 - 1733)
Dates1682 - 1733
NationalityBritish
Date of birth09 December 1682
Date of death21 December 1733
OccupationClergyman, Church of England
ActivityEducation:
Merchant Taylors' School; Peterhouse, Cambridge; BA (1703/4), MA (1707)
Career:
Ordained deacon and priest (1708); Rector of Intwood and Keswick, Norfolk (1708-1720); Fellow of Peterhouse (1709-1715); Rector of Rivenhall, Essex (1722); first Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge (1724-1733)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election01/11/1722
RelationshipsMarried Mary
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Venn
References:
'Gentleman's Magazine' 1733, p663
Notes:
Proposed by James Hamilton, Earl of Abercorn
CodeNA7354
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
MS/390/195Bond of Samuel Harris to the Treasurer of the Royal Society28 February 1722
CMO/2/305Minutes of a meeting of the Council of the Royal Society1 November 1722
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