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Biographical Notes - Francis Ashton, 1645-1715

1940; Royal Society; Volume: 3; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1098/rsnr.1940.0009

1743-0178

H. G. Lyons,

Historical Economic and Social Studies

The lives of Fellows of the Society, especially of those who have filled any of its administrative posts, may have been so closely interwoven with its history as to shed a new light on the work and activities of the Society. The minutes of the Council and the records to be found in the Journal books usually give but a meagre account of what took place at the meetings so that any additional information which is forthcoming will often be of value. No record of those whose lives are here described occurs in the Dictionary of National Biography, and in such cases details are difficult to obtain; much of the information which follows has been gathered from original letters preserved in the Society’s archives, from the documents relating to the Mablethorpe estate, from documents which can be consulted at Somerset House or at the British Museum, and from other sources.