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Authorised form of nameHartley; David (? 1705 - 1757); physician
Dates? 1705 - 1757
NationalityBritish
Place of birthYorkshire, England
Date of birth? 1705
Place of deathBath, Somerset
Date of death28 August 1757
OccupationPhysician
Research fieldPsychology
ActivityEducation:
Bradford School; Jesus College, Cambridge; BA (1725/60), MA (1729)
Career:
Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge (1727-1730); Master of Newark Grammar School (1729); practised physic at Newark, Bury St Edmunds and London
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election25/03/1736
RelationshipsSon of David, clerk, of Ovenden, Halifax, Yorkshire
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB; Venn
Notes:
DNB gives baptism as 21 June 1705 at Luddenden, Halifax, Yorkshire; DNB also indicates that his son thought he was born on 30 August 1705. DSB gives birth date as c 30 Aug 1705 and birth place as Armley, Yorkshire. Venn gives birth date as 1704.
CodeNA6793
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1736/01Hartley, David: certificate of election to the Royal Society25 March 1736
L&P/1/42Paper, 'Of Mrs Stephen's medicines against the stone' by Richard Hatton and David Hartley27 January 1742
RBO/20/37'An Account of Doctor Trew's Dissertation concerning the differences of a human Body before and after Birth' by David Hartley1737
LBO/21/52Copy letter from David Hartley, Bury, to Hans Sloane9 February 1733/1734
LBO/21/8Copy letter from David Hartley and F Sandys to Mr Woolastonnd
MM/20/10Letter from David Hartley to Cromwell Mortimer, Secretary, Royal Society2 August 1742
L&P/1/77Letter, 'On soap lees and hard soap' from Claude Joseph Geoffroy to David Hartley23 July 1741
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