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Authorised form of nameLowthorp; John (c 1659 - 1724)
Datesc 1659 - 1724
NationalityBritish
Place of birthHolderness, Yorkshire
Date of birthc 1659
Date of death02 September 1724
OccupationClergyman, Church of England
ActivityEducation:
School at York; St John's College, Cambridge. BA (1680), MA (1683); incorporated at Oxford (1683)
Career:
Ordained deacon (1680); ordained priest (1683); indicted for misdemeanour for a letter to Bishop Gilbert Burnett (FRS 1664) (1683); Rector of Coston, Leicestershire (1686-1689); became a Nonjuror; Librarian to James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (FRS 1694)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election30/11/1702
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
Council (1705, 1709)
RelationshipsSon of John Lowthorp, Clerk, of Holderness
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; Venn; Foster; Thomas
References:
Obituary, Historical Register Chronological Diary (1724), p41
CodeNA7785
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
LBO/14/13Copy letter from John Lowthorpnd
CLP/22i/59Paper, Proposals for printing the Philosophical Transactions and Collections to the end of the year 1700 by J. Lowthorp12 April 1703
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