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| '''Peter Holford''' (–1804) was an English barrister. He was a ] from 1750 and a ].<ref name="acad">{{acad|id=HLFT736P|name=Peter Holford}}</ref> | '''Peter Holford''' (–1804) was an English barrister. He was a ] from 1750 and a ].<ref name="acad">{{acad|id=HLFT736P|name=Peter Holford}}</ref> | ||
| ==Background== | |||
| 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> | |||
| The Holfords were chancery lawyers and landowners. Sir Richard Holford (died 1718) was married three times. He had sons by each marriage. He bought the manor of ] from the heirs of John Stawell, 2nd Baron Stawell, who died in 1692. It went to Samuel, son of his third wife Susanna Trotman. On his death in 1730 it went to Richard, son of Sir Richard's son by his first marriage, to Sarah Crew, who died in 1742. It passed on to his brother Staynor Holford, who died in 1767. It then was bequeathed out of the Holford family.<ref>{{cite web |title=Parishes: Avebury, British History Online |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol12/pp86-105 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk}}</ref> Robert Holford took advantage of the situation in 1742 to acquire from Richard the younger a farm at ] in lieu of a debt repayment. Distrust remained in the family.<ref>{{cite book |title=Country Life |date=1921 |page=552 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1KgcaTMV8IoC&pg=PA552 |language=en}}</ref> | |||
| ==Life== | ==Life== | ||
| Peter Holford 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.
Background
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.
The Holfords were chancery lawyers and landowners. Sir Richard Holford (died 1718) was married three times. He had sons by each marriage. He bought the manor of Avebury from the heirs of John Stawell, 2nd Baron Stawell, who died in 1692. It went to Samuel, son of his third wife Susanna Trotman. On his death in 1730 it went to Richard, son of Sir Richard's son by his first marriage, to Sarah Crew, who died in 1742. It passed on to his brother Staynor Holford, who died in 1767. It then was bequeathed out of the Holford family. Robert Holford took advantage of the situation in 1742 to acquire from Richard the younger a farm at Beckhampton in lieu of a debt repayment. Distrust remained in the family.
Life
Peter Holford 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.
- "Parishes: Avebury, British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Country Life. 1921. p. 552.
- 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.