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Revision as of 15:04, 29 November 2022 by Charles Matthews (talk | contribs) (→Life: Royal Society)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)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.