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Authorised form of nameStrzelecki; Sir; Paul Edmund de (1797 - 1873)
Other forms of namePaul Edmund
Other forms of surnameDe Strzelecki
Dates1797 - 1873
NationalityPolish
Place of birthGluszyna, Poland
Date of birth20 July 1797
Place of death23 Savile Row, London
Date of death06 October 1873
ActivityEducation:
Honorary DCL (1860, Oxford)
Career:
Independent researcher, with no paid employment; became a British subject (28 November 1845) and Resident in England
Honours:
CB 1848; KCMG 1869
Memberships:
Corresponding member of the Tasmanian Society (later the Royal Society of Tasmania) (1841); FRGS; Athanaeum Club
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election02/06/1853
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
Council: 1865-1866
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB;
References:
Article from Australia's Heritage, part 33 (May 1971); Printed Council Minutes
CodeNA3145
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/004436Strzelecki, Sir Paul Edmund dend
IM/004435Strzelecki, Sir Paul Edmund dend
IM/004434Strzelecki, Sir Paul Edmund dend
IM/004433Strzelecki, Sir Paul Edmund dend
NLB/61/102Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Ernest Hanbury] Hankin Esquire, Chemical Examiner to the Government; United Provinces and Central Provindes, Agra, India9 May 1921
EC/1853/16Strzelecki, Sir Paul Edmund de: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MS/710/125Incomplete letter on the Irish Famine, author unknownc1846-1847
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