Person Pulteney; Richard (1730 - 1801) Pulteney Richard 1730 - 1801 British Male Loughborough, Leicestershire, England 17 February 1730 Blandford, Dorset 13 October 1801 Burial: Langton churchyard, Dorset

Apothecary; Surgeon Botany Conchology Education: Loughborough Grammar School; MD (1764, Edinburgh University) Career: Apprenticed to an apothecary, Harris, in Loughborough; both moved to Mountsorrel during the apprenticeship; practised as a surgeon and apothecary, Leicester; wrote for 'Gentleman's magazine'; came to London; Physician to William Pulteney, Earl of Bath (1764); practised as a physician, Blandford, Dorset; died of pneumonia; bequeathed his museum of shells and minerals, and his herbarium, to the Linnean Society; monument in Blandford Church Memberships: Extra-licenciate RCP (1765); FLS (1790); FRSE (1793) Son of Samuel Pulteney; dissenter; acknowledged as a kinsman by William Pulteney, Earl of Bath (FRS 1744); his herbarium in the British Museum (1969) Fellow 25/11/1762 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB References: A history of Loughborough endowed schools ([Loughborough]: Loughborough Grammar School, 1969), p. 109-112 L B Glyn, 'Israel Lyons: a short but starry career. The life of an eighteenth-century Jewish botanist and astronomer' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 275-305 ©The Royal Society International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-11458 17 Feb 1730 - 13 Oct 1801 NA3434 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes 4774b0a7-3ae8-4ab4-8989-a8c04805be62