Person Sherard; William (1659 - 1728) Sherard William Sherwood 1659 - 1728 British Male Bushby, Leicestershire, England 27 February 1659 London 11 August 1728 Burial: Eltham, Kent

Sedi-Keui, near Smyrna [Izmir], Turkey (1711-1716); Barking Alley, London (1718-1724); Tower Hill, London (1724)

Botany Antiquities Education: Merchant Taylors' School; St John's College, Oxford; BCL (1683), Incorporated at Cambridge (1685), DCL (1694); studied botany under Tournefort in Paris (1686-1688); Leyden (admitted 1694); Padua (admitted 1696) Career: Fellow of St John's (1683-1703); granted permission to travel abroad for three periods of five years each (1685); travelled to Geneva, Rome and Naples, Cornwall and Jersey, sending lists of the plants he saw to John Ray (FRS 1667); Tutor to Sir Arthur Rawdon at Moira, Co Down (1690-1694), Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend (FRS 1706), with whom he travelled in Europe (1694), Wriothesley, son of William, Lord Russell, with whom he travelled in France and Italy (1695-1699), Henry, Duke of Beaufort, at Badminton (1700-1702); Commissioner for Sick and Wounded Prisoners (1702); English Consul at Smyrna, where he grew many rare plants in his garden, formed a celebrated herbarium and travelled in Asia Minor (1703-1717); travelled in Europe (1721, 1723, 1727); bequeathed £3000 to found the chair of Botany at Oxford first occupied by his friend John James Dillenius (FRS 1724) Son of George Sherard or Sherwood of Bushby, Leicestershire; brother of James Sherard (FRS 1706) Royal Society roles: Council: 1727 Fellow 25/02/1720 Edmond Halley Robert Balle Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB; Innes Smith; Venn; Munk's Roll (Sherard, James) References: Marta Cavazza, 'The Institute of Science of Bologna and the Royal Society in the eighteenth century' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 3-25, plate John H Appleby, 'Ginseng and the Royal Society' in NR 1982-83 vol 37 pp 121-145 Frank N Egerton, 'Richard Bradley's Relationship with Sir Hans Sloane' in NR 1970 vol 25 pp 59-77 Raymond Phineas Stearns, 'Fellows of the Royal Society in North Africa and the Levant, 1662-1800' in NR 1954-55 vol 11 pp 75-90 Jean Jacquot, 'Sir Hans Sloane and French Men of Science' in NR 1953 vol 10 pp 85-98 C S S, 'The Society's Library' in NR 1938 vol 1 pp 21-27 Notes: DSB gives year of election as 1718. 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 27 Feb 1659 - 11 Aug 1728 NA5817 21/11/2001 Andyg Martind 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/68918647 0c2b071b-a4ad-4531-a2fc-e302d5f16620