Daniel Colwall (died 1690) was a British merchant and philanthropist.

Life

Colwall became one of the original

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on 20 May 1663 and was elected to its council in the following November. He served as the Society's treasurer for from 1665 to 1679. In 1663 and 1666, he presented the society with £50, while continuing his weekly payments. He died in the Liberty of the Tower of London in November 1690.

Legacy

With Colwall's money, the collection of "rarities formerly belonging to Mr. Hubbard" was acquired in 1666, and kept in Gresham College, a first step towards the formation of a museum. The preparation of the catalogue was entrusted to Dr.

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, who published it in 1681 with the title ''Musæum Regalis Societatis''. This book is embellished with 31 plates, many of which, if not all, were engraved at Colwall's expense. He had long been a governor of Christ's Hospital, to which in his lifetime he was a liberal benefactor. In his will, dated 12 August, with codicil dated 19 August, proved on 20 November 1690, he bequeathed to the school 'for ever one rent or yearly payment of sixty-two pounds and eight shillings issuing and payable out of the hereditary excise which was assigned to me by

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, knt. and bart., deceased,' and the sum of £4,000.

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and John Britton''History of Surrey'', i. 307-8. confused Colwall with his great-nephew of the same name, of the Friary, near

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, and the son of Arnold Colwall.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Colwall, Daniel Year of birth missing 1690 deaths English merchants English philanthropists Original Fellows of the Royal Society