Person Durand; David (1680 - 1763) Durand David 1680 - 1763 French Male Sommieres, France 1680 London 16 January 1763

Clergyman, Huguenot Education: Basle. MA Career: Went to Holland and accompanied a corps of French Protestant refugees to Spain, where he was taken prisoner at the Battle of Almanza (1707); escaped being burnt alive as a heretic on the intervention of the Duke of Berwick; sent to Montpellier, he escaped to Geneva and then to Holland; Pastor at Rotterdam; went to London (1711); Pastor of the French Church, St Martin's Lane and later of the French Church in the Savoy Fellow 16/01/1729 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DBF References: 'Gentleman's Magazine' 1763, p46 Notes: Proposed by John Gaspar Scheuchzer; Sir Hans Sloane; Peter Desmaizeaux 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 1680 - 16 Jan 1763 NA7721 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes 6424a1e1-d07b-4258-b04b-c930e033ae38