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| He was the son Robert Holford (1686–1753) and his wife Sarah Vandeput, and grandson 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 1736. He entered ] in 1735, and was ] in 1740.<ref name="acad"/> | He was the son Robert Holford (1686–1753) and his wife Sarah Vandeput, and grandson 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 1736. He entered ] 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> | 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> | ||
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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 the son Robert Holford (1686–1753) and his wife Sarah Vandeput, and grandson 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's 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.