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John Proctor Anderdon
John Proctor Anderdon (1760–1846) was an English merchant, banker and slave-owner, known also as an art collector. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1811. Life He was the son of Ferdinando Anderdon and his wife Mary Hobart, and grandson of Dr. John Anderdon of Bridgwater, Somerset and his wife Mary Proctor. He became a merchant in London, and a partner with William Manning (British politician), William Manning in Manning & Anderdon, in 1794. He brought into that partnership Charles Bosanquet, with whom he was already in business. Bosanquet left in 1810. Anderdon retired in 1816. Anderdon owned Henlade Hall in Somerset from 1805, and Beech House in Hampshire from 1816. In the 1812 United Kingdom general election, 1812 general election, he stood for the two-member with George Francis Seymour in a sharp contest; but they were kept out by Thomas Peregrine Courtenay and Ayshford Wise. In Hampshire he was a philanthropist, helping to build school rooms. During the 1830s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fellow Of The Royal Society
Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science, and medical science". Fellowship of the Society, the oldest known scientific academy in continuous existence, is a significant honour. It has been awarded to many eminent scientists throughout history, including Isaac Newton (1672), Michael Faraday (1824), Charles Darwin (1839), Ernest Rutherford (1903), Srinivasa Ramanujan (1918), Albert Einstein (1921), Paul Dirac (1930), Winston Churchill (1941), Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1944), Dorothy Hodgkin (1947), Alan Turing (1951), Lise Meitner (1955) and Francis Crick (1959). More recently, fellowship has been awarded to Stephen Hawking (1974), David Attenborough (1983), Tim Hunt (1991), Elizabeth Blackburn (1992), Tim Berners-Lee (2001), Venki Ramakrishn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
