ROBERT PLOT (164o-1696)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V21,
Page 849
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:ROBERT See also:PLOT (164o-1696)
, See also:English naturalist and See also:antiquary, was See also:born at See also:Borden in See also:Kent in 164o
.
He was educated at Wye, and at Magdalen See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, where he graduated B.A. to 1661, and proceeded to M.A
.
(1664) and D.C.L
.
(1671)
.
He was distinguished for his See also:folio See also:work The Natural See also:History of See also:Oxfordshire (1677), in which various fossils, as well as other See also:objects of See also:interest, were figured and described
.
It was regarded as a See also:model for many subsequent See also:works
.
In 1677 See also: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 See also:year he became See also:professor of See also:chemistry
.
In 1686 he wrote The Natural History of See also:Staffordshire
.
Two years later he became historiographer-royal
.
He died on the 3oth of See also:April 1696
.
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