Authorised form of name | Biggin; George (c 1762 - 1803) |
Dates | c 1762 - 1803 |
Date of birth | c. 1762 |
Place of death | His appartments, Charles Street, St James's Square, London |
Date of death | 03 November 1803 |
Activity | Career: Trustee of the Opera House and Drury Lane Theatre; made a balloon ascent with Lunardi and Sage (1785); studied agriculture and experimented with tanning; invented a coffee pot Freemason, initiated 1796, Lodge of Friendship No 3, subsequently No 6, at Thatched House Tavern, St James's Street, London
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Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 01/07/1802 |
Source | Sources: Bulloch's Roll 'Freemasons and the Royal Society; Alphabetical List of Fellows of the Royal Society who are Masons' The Library and Museum of Freemasonry, 2010 page 9 |
Code | NA5026 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNo | Title | Date |
IM/000368 | Biggin, George | nd |
L&P/11/102 | Paper, 'Experiments to determine the quantity of tanning principle and of Gallic acid in the bark of various trees' by George Biggin | 1799 |
EC/1802/05 | Biggin, George: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |