ROBERT

See also:

• PLOT
• ROBERT PLOT (164o-1696)

PLOT (164o-1696)  , English naturalist and antiquary, was born at Borden in Kent in 164o . He was educated at Wye, and at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. to 1661, and proceeded to M.A . (1664) and D.C.L . (1671) . He was distinguished for his folio work The Natural History of Oxfordshire (1677), in which various fossils, as well as other objects of interest, were figured and described . It was regarded as a model for many subsequent works . In 1677 Plot was elected F.R.S., and he was secretary for the Royal Society from 1682 to 1684 . He was appointed in 1683 the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, and in the same year he became professor of chemistry . In 1686 he wrote The Natural History of Staffordshire . Two years later he became historiographer-royal . He died on the 3oth of April 1696 .