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| He was a younger son of Sir Richard Holford, master in chancery, and his second wife Elizabeth Stayner, daughter of Sir Richard Stayner RN.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=Bernard |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland |date=1871 |publisher=Harrison |page=636 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=161CAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA636 |language=en}}</ref> He was educated at ], and matriculated at ] in 1735, and was ] in 1740.<ref name="acad"/> | He was a younger son of Sir Richard Holford, master in chancery, and his second wife Elizabeth Stayner, daughter of Sir Richard Stayner RN.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=Bernard |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland |date=1871 |publisher=Harrison |page=636 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=161CAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA636 |language=en}}</ref> He was educated at ], and matriculated at ] in 1735, and was ] in 1740.<ref name="acad"/> | ||
| Holford was elected to the ] in 1746, and belonged to a dining club within it that met in house on ], with a membership in which physicians predominated, and including ].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Thomson |first1=Thomas |title=History of the Royal Society: From Its Institution to the End of the Eighteenth Century |date=1812 |publisher=R. Baldwin |page=xliv |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BxZUAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR44 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Jungnickel |first1=Christa |last2=McCormmach |first2=Russell |title=Cavendish: The Experimental Life |date=1999 |publisher=Bucknell University Press |isbn=978-0-8387-5445-0 |page=78 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XpyvPTRwLoQC&pg=PA78 |language=en}}</ref> | |||
| ==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
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Peter Holford (–1804) was an English barrister. He was a master in chancery from 1750 and a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Life
He was a younger son of Sir Richard Holford, master in chancery, and his second wife Elizabeth Stayner, daughter of Sir Richard Stayner RN. He was educated at Westminster School, and matriculated at [[St John' College, Cambridge in 1736. He entered Lincoln's Inn in 1735, and was called to the bar in 1740.
Holford was elected to the Royal Society in 1746, and belonged to a dining club within it that met in house on The Strand, with a membership in which physicians predominated, and including Henry Cavendish.
Notes
- ^ "Peter Holford (HLFT736P)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- Burke, Bernard (1871). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Harrison. p. 636.
- Thomson, Thomas (1812). History of the Royal Society: From Its Institution to the End of the Eighteenth Century. R. Baldwin. p. xliv.
- Jungnickel, Christa; McCormmach, Russell (1999). Cavendish: The Experimental Life. Bucknell University Press. p. 78. ISBN 978-0-8387-5445-0.