 | William Coxe, John Churchill Duke of Marlborough - Great Britain - 1818 - 642 pages
...Returning from Ireland, he was nominated one of the clerks comptrollers of the board of green cloth. Asa staunch loyalist, he incurred the resentment of the...distinguished the zealous champions of the prerogative. * Notwithstanding the favour of the sovereign, and the income of his offices, he died in straitened... | |
 | A F. Kendall - 1830 - 704 pages
...1666 obtained the rectory of Bath Abbey-church, in which city he spent the greater part of his future life. He was one of the earliest members of the Royal Society, and distinguished himself as an advocate of the philosophy of Bacon, in opposition to the defenders of... | |
 | Henry Thomas (antiquarian.) - 1830 - 490 pages
...inven,tion of various scientific and philosophical instruments. In 1653 he was chosen a fellow of All Souls. He was one of the earliest members of the Royal Society, and evinced his ardour for knowledge by the sedulous activity with which he promoted the objects of that... | |
 | Samuel Lewis - Wales - 1845 - 498 pages
...of Wilts, also a descendant of the family, assisted Dugdale in his compilation of the Monasticori ; he was one of the earliest members of the Royal Society, and published several works, among which was a natural history of Surrey ; he died in 1 700. John Jones,... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1848 - 466 pages
...Clarendon; after whose fall he filled the same office under the Duke of York, till his death, in 1672. He was one of the earliest Members of the Royal Society, and published two tracts in answer to Harrington's Oceana. so powerfully for the Paper Bill, 1 yet now... | |
 | Benjamin Clarke - England - 1852 - 820 pages
...that he surveyed, he realised, by that business alone, an estate which brought him in £6,000 a year. He was one of the earliest members of the Royal Society, and an original member of the College of Physicians, as BOW BOX embodied under patent in 1GG7. He died... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1854 - 532 pages
...death, in 1672. According to Pepys's Signs Manual, Wren was mortally wounded in the battle of Solebay. He was one of the earliest members of the Royal Society, and published two tracts in answer to Harrington's Oceana. 2 The King took possession of Audley End the... | |
 | National portrait gallery - 1862 - 116 pages
...the death of Cromwell he returned to France, but came back to England at the time of the Restoration. He was one of the earliest members of the Royal Society, and is mentioned as Dr. Cowley among their experimental philosophers. He died at Chertsey in Surrey, and... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1866 - 528 pages
...death, in 1672. According to Pepys's Signs J/miua2, Wren was mortally wounded in the battle of Solebay. He was one of the earliest members of the Royal Society, and published two tracts in answer to Harrington's Oceana. * The King took possession of Audley End the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1873 - 590 pages
...Declaration in Westminster Abbey and was arrested1 on a false charge of treason under William III. He was one of the earliest members of the Royal Society ; and a popular writer of both prose and verse.] 9 [Thomas Carew, a courtier of Charles II. and a charming... | |
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... eldest son of the Bishop of Ely, of both his names, MP for St. Michael's, 1661, and made Secretary to Lord Clarendon, after whose fall he filled a similar office under the Duke of York, till his death in 1672. According to Pepys's " Signs Manual,"... 
